On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:30:25 +0000 Nathan Baxter <nathanbax...@pixelmasochist.net> said:
> On 15/02/13 10:45, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:41:59 +0300 المسالم المسالمة > > <almusalimalmusali...@gmail.com> said: > > > >>> what? do what gnome did? :) ie lose users. :) seriously. the old fashioned > >>> look > >>> is what e is doing (by default) and that's because its what people > >>> generally > >>> want or accept. if you want something else its as easy as configuring - > >>> making > >>> your own profiles from your config, adding modules or writing them, making > >>> themes etc. - it's not something core to e itself. :) > >>> > >> ======================================================================== > >> > >> > >> i am with you about customizing the desktop with what we already get > >> > >> but i am also here to share an idea with you .... if you dont want to hear > >> it > >> > >> then its your decision and i respect it > >> > >> i am not here to force you and other people to share it > > happy to listen, but there will be resistance to changing a default away > > from something traditional that people like and know and can use. gnome > > made that mistake.. and then didnt offer a "quick - give me back what i > > had" option. we should, if anything, do experiments in alternative > > profiles, not the standard. small improvements to the standard one - sure. > > little tweaks and improvements - yes. major re-creations that leave people > > wondering how to use e.. bad. > > > > Are there any plans to re-instate buttons? Like the ones in e16, but better. no. no plans. > A configurable block like that could prove really useful, it was doing > what hover desk did before hover desk did it. Now that we have these > shevles which can be placed where ever I'm assuming that it may only > take a module to be created to enable this, in fact this module could be > block configurable for specific applications. You could set it up so > that the primary applications take up a larger percentage of space over > the less used ones, it could be an extension of favourites and/or have > it's own application set. correct. it is as simple as a module. :) shelves were covering the common case of "i want stuff along an edge of my screen - please lay it out for me and handle it when my screen changes resolution". what you want is something much more "custom". to some extent desktop gadgets do this - but you need a module to provide a "programmable object" - ie something that is "display image X and when clicked on do Y" which is rather trivial. :) what makes me not do it by default is handling layout when screens get reconfigured. i'd prefer to have it automagically "just work". :) > and instead of having the pager shown, that could be hidden as the > applications that get launched are placed on their own desktop. I > wouldn't like to see this as default, just throwing out some ideas based > on current technologies. I'd also like to point that this is all > hypothetical as I have no idea how to build these elements in code, just > how they might function & look from a design perspective. :) > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > >> Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > >> and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > >> _______________________________________________ > >> enlightenment-devel mailing list > >> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > >> > > > > > -- > > > pixelmasochist.net : it all heppens there. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
