On 12 Jun, John R Sheets shouted:
-> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-> >
-> > On 11 Jun, John R Sheets shouted:
-> > -> A couple quick questions....what's the going rate on
-> > -> /*comments*/? I don't expect much in an open-source demo, but
-> > -> how much energy are you guys going to expend towards commenting
-> > -> up the release version?
-> >
-> > Comments? whats that? who needs them? bah! :) I dont think i'm gonan
-> > start putting comments in.. 1. I dont have the time 2. if you can coe
-> > you knwo what the code does just by reading it. 3. we're much mroe
-> > concerned with features, stability and speed/ efficience than comments
-> > right now.. (which clutter up the code an dmake it harder to read when
-> > u're bsuy debugging it and heavily working on it - alos you put a
-> > comment in - and byt he time u've finidhed with the code u need to
-> > change the comment cause it no longer applies).
->
-> Gotcha. Maybe I'll look into writing up/maintaining a quick
-> little module-by-module tour of the code....keep it all in a
-> separate text document or something. Gotta find time, tho.... I
-> would safely assume nothing like that is currently underway....?
-> (c: Thought not...
no documentation of E's code itselfisnt' underway at all (in any form)
oficially.. :) currently it's probably mroe useful to doc ument the use
installation and configuration than the code.. :)
-> Anyway, is the code for E14 a radical departure from the E14 demo
-> (ignoring test.c)? Or would the demo be a good place to at least
-> start on something like this?
is this the E14demo that went up last year or the 0.14 snapshot that
was up a week or so ago and was just wiped?
-> > -> Also, with the sliding desktops, are there plans to have them
-> > -> slide from different directions? Left-to-right would be cool.
-> > -> Another thing I noticed is that if you have, say, three desktops
-> > -> partially open, like this:
-> >
-> > actually that was possible alreday int eh snapshot.. u had to compiel
-> > the dmeo fot adiffrent dragdir (values 0-3 used) :) what we have here
-> > in CVs can change dir ont he fly (hit F3 to change it) it can also
-> > change the orderign of the buttons ont he dragbar ont he fly (kep
-> > hitting F4) :)
->
-> Always two steps ahead of the game, aye? (c;
of course! :)
-> > -> -----------
-> > -> | A
-> > -> -----------
-> > -> | B
-> > -> |
-> > -> |
-> > -> -----------
-> > -> | C
-> > -> ===========
-> > ->
-> > -> (C is on top) If you bring B to the foreground (i.e. click on
-> > -> the up-arrow), C becomes unreachable unless you drag B waaayyyy
-> > -> down below C. Well, I guess that's not such a horrible thing,
-> > -> unless you have 4-8 desktops hanging around back there. My point
-> > -> is, it'd be nice to have an X-Ray mode that would temporarily
-> > -> float the existing (normally hidden) bars to the top (wouldn't
-> > -> need the desktop images). Then you could pick the hidden one you
-> > -> needed, and bring it to the top. Kind of a
-> > -> partially-open-desktop-frame-bar-browser.
-> >
-> > hmm possible to do.. :) needot add an "xray mode" grab the pointer,
-> > draw outlines of the desktops - allow dragging of the outlines whilt in
-> > xray mode, then at end of xray mode actually apply the new positionsto
-> > the desktops... :) might do that.. :)
->
-> Maybe tabs on the side...like:
->
-> |v========================^| <-- root bar
-> | |
-> | |
-> |v========================^| <-- regular bar A
-> | |
-> |x==> | <-- hidden bar B
-> | |
-> |x==> | <-- hidden bar C, etc.
-> | |
-> |--------------------------|
->
-> On one hand, that's just more graphics to bloat. On the other
-> hand, you could default to the normal bar appearance if an xray
-> graphic isn't defined....
hmm tabs? yeah.. that could be done.. "show tabs" in x-ray mode.. :)
quite possible.. :) i'll work on that tonight.. :)
-> John
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