On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
If one wants all dialogs to be movable, one can just set suitable
-use_dialog_mode policy option value in the matchbox-window-manager
startup script: /etc/osso-af-init/matchbox.sh and restart the device.
(and if you make a mistake and matchbox doesn't startup, the device
may end up in a reboot loop, so test this first in Scratchbox!)
Thanks Eero. But therein lies the rub. As a developer, I'd like
software I write to be accessible to as wide an audience as possible:
if people can potentially brick their machines by doing what's
necessary to install my software, that's not a reasonable
distribution strategy.
For the moment I'm experimenting with various floating windows for
various utility functions -- my drag-and-drop example on my N800
website, say. To do so I need a way around the present IMHO ill-
considered window manager restrictions. The only options are dialogs
(which create lots of artifacts on moving/resizing) and, thanks to
Kalle, popups.
Dialogs can already e.g. position themselves on the screen how
they want, WM centers the dialogs only if they haven't set
co-ordinates before mapping themselves.
Sure, but...
<rant>
As for the "standard" dialogs: except for PalmOS -- which for god's
sake I hope you're not trying to emulate -- I cannot immediately
think of another current PDA^H^H^HInternet Tablet UI which does not
have the option of movable or resizable windows. Maemo's
notification windows can't be moved, even when they're not modal and
are blocking other GUI operations (!!!) Even if the window manager's
movable-windows switch *was* turned on, I'm not sure if they could
still be moved, as they don't have decorations. And various panels
(fonts, saves, etc.) are not resizable even when their size is
unneccessarily too small to be useful. In all cases, if you moved
them or resized these dialogs, they'd not stay put next time, because
maemo doesn't have persistent state.
</rant>
Sean
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