On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 02:12 +1200, Matthew Thomas wrote: > That's a bit ironic, since Konfabulator, gdesklets, and the Dashboard > are petri dishes for the development of objects that share many similar > behaviors but also some arbitrarily different ones. (Surprise! The > Dashboard Calculator widget has behavior inconsistent with the > non-Dashboard Calculator app.
Heh... yes, sad but true. I'm not sure how much of that is down to the limitation of the technology used to implement them, and how much is just down to the desktop doohickey developers thinking their way is kewler. Certainly in my desktop==panel vision, it would ideally be exactly the same applet code you were running, whether it was on the desktop or the panel, since the desktop would really just be a panel that wasn't on top all the time. (A useful side-effect of which would presumably be the ability to lay things out properly in a multi-row fashion on your real panels too, rather than maintaining the remarkable 'the bigger you make them, the less stuff you can actually put on them' property they have today...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
