> What do you guys think? I like it, but then again, I seem to be in the minority of Deskbar devs in that I prefer the "Entry in the Panel" UI over the "Button in the Panel" one.
The original 0.1 version of Deskbar had this light gray text (without the cool icon), as seen on the screenshot at: http://browserbookapp.sourceforge.net/deskbar.html and there's still a link to the 0.1 tarball from that page. IIRC I actually set the entry's text and changed the text style or color explicitly from black to gray, and it was somewhere between trivial and tricky to get it exactly right so that I didn't end up accidentally searching Google for "Search (Ctrl-Backspace)", for example. Corner cases with the "clear the text entry on focus" logic like using tab to navigate around the panel, or using Ctrl-I to switch to the IMDB search engine. Or I might have easily just noticed the problem and never bothered to fix it. These days I'd probably just listen to an expose-event and paint the text separately. I can't remember the explicit reason why I took the gray text out for later versions. Maybe I was going for a less-is-more whitespace-is-beautiful UI look. Maybe it got technically difficult when I migrated (briefly) to a SexyIconEntry. Shrug. :-) _______________________________________________ deskbar-applet-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list
