>> My first question is... which is *more* correct (naively, without
>> understanding much about e's display layer behaviour, I'll think the
>> calendar module approach, *seems* sensible to me.)
>>

>There is one Manager per X screen, an arbitrary number of Containers per 
>Manager, and an arbitrary number of Zones per Container.
>
>Currently, only one container is created per manager, but i _believe_ this 
>could be made configurable (sort of like 'multiple desktops' in e16 -- 
>someone correct me if I'm wrong). 
>One Zone is created per xinerama screen, but you can create your own using
>the 
>-fake-xinerama-screen option on enlightenment.
>
>So, for gadgets, its a matter of policy. Since you probably want them on
>_all_ 
>desktop surfaces, most modules loop through the managers, and containers to

>find all the evases and then do the same thing for each one (creating 
>different Faces of the same Gadget). The pager, however, does this per
>Zone, 
>since it shows the contents of a specific zone. 

Excellent explanation. Thnx for that. It makes sense now.

>I wrote E_Gadget mostly to wrap this up and abstract it from the module 
>creator. One of the things still missing is an option to decide whether to 
>draw 1 per container or 1 per zone.

About E_Gadget, have you added support for being able to load a theme from a
name edje file yet? If not, I could send in a patch to do that... my current
tree (checked out on Tuesday), only has support for applying a theme from
e's default theme.

>I think you need to set the gadman client's position / size _after_
>creating 
>your objects, and setting the change callback.

Thnx. I've realized that now. Playtime aka Nitetime, I'll try it all out.

>
> Essien Ita Essien
>
>
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rephorm


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