On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:19:41 +0100 Chidambar 'ilLogict' Zinnoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dans son message intitulé « Re: [E-devel] enlightenment-svn Digest, > Vol 5, Issue 78 » du Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:32:28 -0600, Nick Hughart > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nous a donné l'occasion de lire : > > > > btw, as others on IRC: I dislike the new config dialog. > > > > > > maybe if we reduce the number of categories and avoid scroll, it > > > could work better. since it's very similar to macos, we could do > > > like them and put a first screen to choose the category, so it's > > > like: Configuration window: Look, Apps, ... as a grid or so, > > > possible with descriptive texts as we see on macos, kde or vista. > > > Look window: Wallpaper, theme... followed by the selected app > > > dialog. > > > > > > maybe this will not match e17 way, so out of ideas. > > > > Another idea might be collapsible headers for each category. > > Clicking on the header would then expand that category in the > > list. In fact a generic collapsible widget could be useful in > > other places as well. > > FWIW, I almost have that for ilist. I have a little resizing issue > when collapsing, apart from that it should be ok for general > comsumption soon. Is this a generic widget that I can put any widgets in or just for the ilist headers? > > > Another idea would be to have a list of categories. Once you pick a > > category, the contents of the list are replaced with that category > > with a button to go backwards. This type of interface works on a > > touchscreen as well as a desktop. Some examples of this type of > > interface is the iPhone Settings and to a lesser extent the Windows > > Control Panel (the new one with the categories and such, not the > > classic one). Both provide a similar flow of category -> items and > > include some way to go back. So in this way I see it as serving > > both worlds and also has some track record of actually being useful > > for both. > > I was wondering if it wouldn't be better to always use the same > window instead of opening a new window everytime, e.g., you selected > category, then item, and all the content of the window is being > replaced by the settings themselves instead of opening a new one. > Problem is that I think that it is against E philosophy... I think this would be a neat idea myself, not sure about others. > > Cheers! > > Chidambar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
