Quoting Doug Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:41:52 +0200, Ciprian Popovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> On Thursday 11 December 2003 16:49, Angelo Brigante, Jr. wrote:
> >> > I have a question about the Slit behavior between versions 0.61.1 and
> >> > 0.65.0. I have the Slit placement set to 'Top Left' and I have 
> >> Autohide
> >> > enabled.
> >> > In 0.61.1 the Slit would appear as follows: [snip]
> >> > That is it would drop down from the top.
> >> > In 0.65.0 (and 0.70.0broken) it does: [snip]
> >> > That is it slides out from the left side.
> >> >
> >>
> >> It was decided that the behaviour was more consistent and intuitive if 
> >> the
> >> slit always acted the same, so it slides from the sides.  If this list
> >> believes that the old behavior is better I could be persuaded to either
> >> make it act like it used to or provide the option to act in either the 
> >> new
> >> way or the old one.
> >
> > I always thought that the combination of slit placement and slit 
> > orientation
> > (vertical/horizontal) decides what way it slides out. That is, always in
> > such way that the longer side slides in first. I never really checked 
> > this
> > come to think about it, but I guess that would be intuitive behaviour
> for
> > me.
> >
> 
> It makes sense to me that the longest side would slide out first if it had
> 
> the feel of a panel to someone, but that the shortest side would slide out
> 
> first if it were to feel more like a drawer. It is more intuitive to me 
> that the direction that it slides out is based on it's orientation rather 
> than always trying to come out of the side. It also seems like something 
> that people would want control over. I personally don't use autohide 
> because I like to keep an eye on my slit, but from playing around a bit 
> with the autohide, it really does seem like something that one would want 
> to personalize.

The "problem" is that orientation means how the slit is, well, oriented, and
"top-left" placement is just one option. I don't see how you can determine
the slide-out behaviour based on just these two options unless you assume
"long side slides out first". If you don't want to assume that we're gonna
need another option for this.

-- 
Ciprian Popovici

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