On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:16:20 +0300 Omry Yadan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> most people gets the location much faster from a map than from a > > >>coordinate : where in the world is the lat-long (34,32) ? :) > >> > >> > > > >i know - BUT the desktopname popup doesn't appear until you have ALREADY > >witched to that desktop so it's pretty pointless putting in a minutarue > >desktop layout there if you are already staring at that desktop at the time - > >it's already there fullscreen. thats whyt he pager has miniature views so you > >can choose the desktop thtere based on spatial layout memory if you are good > >at that. :) > > > > > I see your point, however, sometimes users switch desktop in the spatial > way, meaning moving the mouse up/down/left/right, and its still good to > know where you are > > after each such desktop change. > > one reason would be to re-orient (because you may have forgot where you > were), another is to get a feeling how close you are to the edge of the > "world". OH - you mean not a view OF the current desktop with its window there but a pager view like the pager module with ALL desktops showing which one is "selected" ? is that what you mean? ie if you have a 4x2 desktop array and you switch to desk 2,1 you'd get a popup like: +-------------------------------+ |[ ][ ][ ][ ] Desktop Name Here | |[ ][ ][#][ ] | +-------------------------------+ Where "X is a hilight of some sort indicating that desktop is where you are in relation to ALL desktops? > I know the pager can be used for that, but the pager is sometimes hidden > under a maximized window, and the popup window isn't. > > in fact, both modules are very closely related, I think the feature of > the popup windows with the desktop name can might as well be a part of > the pager (Along with setting a name for a desktop, again in a spatial > way (right click in the desktop, than rename, for example). that's true - i can see this being useful as part of the pager. i'll think about that - definitely a good point. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
