On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:16:30 +0200 Tilman Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> I like the idea. > > And just for a useless opinion from me, the Nokia770 desktop had > something like this. They allowed free positioning of elements with > various sizes. The effect whas a cluttered appearance and a real pain to > position the widgets in a nile and then puts a little show/ce way. And many of > these elements wasted just some pixels too much to bring them into position > next to each other with others. > > Especially on a phone i would like the container to control size and > placement of the gadgets. > The gadget designer could still decide how many 'units' he wants and > shape his elements like tetris blocks but the container would enforce > placement and size. > > As i said, this is at the moment a useless idea. But i wanted to share > my experience with a floating unconstrained gadget layout. *g* oh maemo just implemented this awfully! sure - core idea is there, but they had no drag resistance (ie resist being dragged over another element for a it to allow aligning of things easily) and no form of "auto arrange". ie i cant go create a "vbox" or "hbox" then drag N elements into it and then let it auto-arrange (or some hider that taks N elements and groups them into a v/hbox or table and then shows/hides with a little control tab/button etc.) it was very raw. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
