Re: zui ideas

2009-07-15 Thread Chani
On July 14, 2009 23:00:22 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2009, Chani wrote: > > on sunday me, notmart and ruphy came up with some crazy ideas for the > > ZUI. here are the notes... better late than never ;) > > > > zoom 2 (fully zoomed out): > > > > -the containment is too small to realy

Re: zui ideas

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 10 July 2009, Chani wrote: > on sunday me, notmart and ruphy came up with some crazy ideas for the ZUI. > here are the notes... better late than never ;) > > zoom 2 (fully zoomed out): > > -the containment is too small to realyl interact with, so put the toolbox > over top. > problem: on

Re: zui ideas

2009-07-13 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 12 July 2009, Jamboarder wrote: > It's been a while (since the 4.2 cycle) since I've contributed to plasma; > things got really busy this last six months. If it's worth anything, I > thought I'd provide a little feedback on this zui topic. > > > > - Original Message > > > From: C

Re: zui ideas

2009-07-13 Thread Jamboarder
> From: Chani > > > Selecting an activity could use the same Qt/KDE selection model similar to > > what's used throughout the desktop (essentially a single selection view). > > Keyboard navigation could be the same as elsewhere on the desktop: arrows > > keys highlight, enter activates (zooms i

Re: zui ideas

2009-07-13 Thread Chani
> The terms "Zoom Out" and "Zoom In" are presented to the user. I wonder if > this perhaps exposes the mechanism rather than the action(s) the user would > like to perform. What distinct functionality does each of the zoom level > provide? Or another way to put it might be, what activity would

Re: zui ideas

2009-07-12 Thread Jamboarder
It's been a while (since the 4.2 cycle) since I've contributed to plasma; things got really busy this last six months. If it's worth anything, I thought I'd provide a little feedback on this zui topic. - Original Message > From: Chani > zoom 2 (fully zoomed out): > ... > zoom level

Re: zui ideas

2009-07-10 Thread Marco Martin
toolbox first because the code is scaaary yeah, making it a qgraphicswidget would make the thing a bit less gross :) > ...the only thing we're missing here is someone to actually implement all > this > ;) > > -- > > today we talked to sebas and he had some

zui ideas

2009-07-10 Thread Chani
all this ;) -- today we talked to sebas and he had some other zui ideas. I don't seem to have proper notes on those. it was something to do with dynamically zooming out as much as needed to show all the containments. also, positioning htem nicely so that you didn't have