Well, you seem to be set on destroying them, so unfortunately I see no reason to discuss and fix or even rewrite the two implementations.
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:21:30 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <[email protected]> said: > > > 2010/10/27 Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira <[email protected]>: > > > Don't remove it, please. > > > There are bugs, but these features are needed by some people. > > > > > > Em 27 de outubro de 2010 19:58, Carsten Haitzler > > > <[email protected]>escreveu: > > > > > >> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:35:31 -0300 Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira > > >> <[email protected]> said: > > >> > > >> i so feel like killing off systray again. :) fyi shelf autohide is > full of > > >> holes and problems. it was not implemented solidly to begin with. i'm > > >> tempted > > >> to kill it off as a feature just because i couldnt be bothered fixing > it > > >> all > > >> up. and that reminds me - edge bindings have problems of their own > too... > > > > The bug there is that the shelf does not get the mouse-out event (as > > event goes to the child/systray window, then goes to its menu, then > > off shelf), thus the auto-hide is not triggered. > > oh there are other usability issue s- like the fact that it was designed to > work on mouse in and out on the shelf - this means some section always has > to > be visible. if u dont have a compositor and have shaped windows - like an > invisible shelf, you will never get a mouse in as the edge of the shelf is > never actually visible and able to get that enter event. i am sure i > grumbled > about this before and people who want the feature never fixed it. it > should if > ANYTHING be tied to edgebindings (which is why i mentioned it above). and > this > is why edges are not so easily made "generally bindable" as we need them > for > all sorts of special cases (desktop flip etc.). before desktopflip was the > only > user - but shelf autohide/show should have too - but then it got turned > into a > general thing and lots of problems appeared - like keeping edge bindings > even > if they ONLY binding was to flip desktops and u had a 1x1 virtual desktop > setup > (thus making window borders inaccessible at the edge of the screen even > there > is no need for that screen edge), same with desktop flip and multiple > screens > (edge flip basically can't work as long as u have 2 screens with > independant > desktops to flip - so it should get auto turned off)... and much more. > there's > a lot of specialised if cases based on usage and behavior we just cant do > nicely with generic bindings. > > if someone doesn't go fix all these nasty cases up - i will guarantee you, > i > will eventually, when i get around to it, kill edge bindings, kill shelf > autohide and restore the old simple stuff e used to have that was actually > correct and worked for all cases. it turned off the invisible window > catchers > when there was nothing left to catch at an edge and thus made that edge > usable > again for grabbing window borders or other things. if you want an e17 ever > released you will have to accept the fact that either things are fixed - or > they are killed. as i disagree with the whole way both of the above have > been > designed and implemented to begin with (as the whole implementation > concepts > are wrong), i will just kill. so it stays broken for now until i get around > to > that... or someone fixes this all up with a LOT of extra code to work > right. > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America > contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in > marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
