On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:15:28 +0100 CGA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > Good Day to you all e-devs and thank you for your great job =) > > As you can understand from the subject of this e-mail I'm here to suggest > you a design idea for the configuration panel, take it or leave it, it's up > to you. > Obviously *anyone* can post impressions and improvements of this idea if > they like. > > Now, i was wandering if you plan to make the configuration panel and all > the "sub-options" one monolithic window... it could be nicer to have > something as will follow, rather than to have many windows open like in this > screenie: > http://www0.get-e.org/Screenshots/User_Submitted/_images/dialogs.png -- Of > course it is not compulsory to have all of them open at one time, but this > is not the main point. The point is to have *always* one "piece" and not to > have a second (third, fourth and so on..) window opened for the config > option one choses to open. To let you understand better i'll use an example: > > My idea in example: > > #1- the config panel opens like it does now from the main menu, and opens > the "configuration panel" main window. > #2- when you click on a configuration item (let's say background settings) , > that slides off on the right of the main window (pretty much like the > eclair's cover thing) and presents you the configuration you have chosen. > (let's say background settings) in basic mode. > #2a- advanced mode might have few lines explaining the user what's all > about. > #3- if one leaves the background settings before he applied the change , > there should be a warning "save the changes?" and the likes. > #4- when one leaves the current config dialogue for another, then the first > slides back in and the second slides off afterwards. there might be room for > great eye-candy here, like eg: transparency or fade in fade out. > #5- if one clicks on the advanced settings the whole pc must implode. > #6 -whatever you like, i'm out of ideas. > > best regards and thank you again for the whole E project =) > ps: the txt attached is the log of the #edevelop chat where this started.
ok. this is really a big CHANGE in how it works. and a lot fo work to do. right now i think we will opt for the "less work" option (ie - continue where we are going). we edo appreciate the effort to list this - but we're on a path and we need gui config. we can sit and chop and change - but frankly - this is a "neither way is particularly better than the other one". sure. multiple dialogs mean closign them - BUT it does allow you to play with 2 configuration items at once, where a 1 thing at a time only one means you have to keep fliping around. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
