On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:45:37 -0200 Rafael Antognolli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:36:55 -0200 "Jonas M. Gastal" > > <[email protected]> said: > > > >> On Friday 24 February 2012 17:18:41 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > >> > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:55:55 +0900 Daniel Juyung Seo > >> > <[email protected]> said: > >> > > >> > yeah. imho containers are objects whose PRIMARY purpose is to hold child > >> > widgets. list and genlist can hold icons.. but the primary content is > >> > list items which are part of the widget itself. > >> > > >> > >> Well I was going with a definition of: a widget that holds other widgets. I > >> wouldn't call list a container, because it holds is a piece of text plus an > >> icon, not an arbitrary widget, but genlist holds an arbitrary widget, > >> anything the user wants, that was my reasoning to classify it as a > >> container. > >> > >> I'm not sure what you mean when you say that list items are part of the > >> widget itself. From an UI point of view the genlist is a scroller that > >> organizes widgets vertically(or horizontally), it's not a thing itself. > >> > >> I'd also like to point out that what drove me to make that fix was a > >> comment by marcellus1 on the IRC channel, asking why genlist was on the > >> widgets list instead of the containers list(in docs). > >> > >> That said, I'm not nearly as experienced in the project as either of you, > >> so if you don't agree with me, I'm ok with reverting the change. > > > > actually list holds arbitrary content too exactly like genlist - the icon is > > an arbitrary widget ... technically. :) > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > Regardless of the definition, on my first searches I got pissed off > several times because I couldn't find genlist under containers > section. And I looked for it there without think about it, that was > just where I expected it to be. > > That said, I think that making the documentation easier for the user > of the library is the more important thing to do. A simple reminder in > the beginning of the description of the widget would probably be > enough to tell the user that genlist is not a real container (and I > don't think that the user would even care about it). > > Just my 2 cents. > I wish the "API Reference" (which, btw, is completely wrong in that it links to what is the "Modules" section for every other library) was at least alphabetically ordered since I never bother with the containers/infrastructure nonsense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
