Hi all, there was a small discussion on the irc about the module popup policy. Currently each module has his own policy: - mixer opens the popup on click - net module opens on mouse over, if you click the popup stays open - weather opens on mouse over, no click event
So i think there should be a standard for the module popup. Here is my idea: Mouse over: The mouse over popup is enabled by default. You can disable it using an option in the module configuration dialog. Click: The click locks the popup. This means, if you leave the module icon area, the popup isn't closed. If you want to unlock the popup, you need to click once again. A nice feedback to the user would be a little lock icon. If the mouse over popup is disabled, a click would open the popup and locks it. To close the popup simply click. The mouse over gives you a quick view at the popup without much user interaction. The locking mode allows you to have a popup with useful informations open, while running some other processes. Example: A memory module shows in the popup a list with the top memory eating applications (i guess firefox would be at the first position). The list is updated every second. If you now lock the popup you would be able to kill the applications with some xterm commands - while still having the list open and show you informations. Without the locking mode you would need to hover the module icon again and again after running a command, just to see if there has been something changed. I guess the user would open another xterm and run `top` there, so the module popup information would be a nice eyecatcher, but doesn't really help. Another example would be a calendar module which shows a month view in the popup. Sometimes you just want to know a day in the next week, sometimes you want to write some email while having the month view on screen. Imho it's useful. :) Comments? Greets, Brian 'morlenxus' Miculcy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
