>> Menubar with: >> - Menulets (volume control, wireless strength, battery, etc) >> - Services menu (should be far right and should use the icon shown >> in this mockup: http://jesseross.com/clients/etoile/ui/interface/ >> 800x480.png ) >> - Flower menu (should be far left and should be used for system- >> wide tasks, such as logging out, shutting down, killing applications, >> system updates, system preferences, etc) >> - Tear off menus (using the tear-off bar shown in this mockup: >> http://jesseross.com/clients/etoile/ui/interface/800x480.png ) > > This is probably the most well-defined component. > Do you have a icon for services menu ? > I can use it in ServicesMenulet.
I do -- I'll add it to svn tomorrow. >> Overview (Exposé like view described by David at the top of this >> email, should show running apps along the bottom, and should show all >> open windows--both active and minimized, default trigger is a click >> in the lower left corner of the screen) > > This is the second well-defined components we have so far. > We should always call it 'Overview' in the future > instead "Expose-like layer" or "Application switcher layer" > unless anyone has different idea about the name ? I like Overview :) > I agree that we show open and minimized window > in slight different style. Yep. Minimized should be slightly smaller with less of a drop shadow, perhaps, and could be towards the bottom of the screen, with the active windows larger and towards the top of the screen. Busy windows should be the only ones that are semi-transparent. > They will take most of space. > What I want to be clear is the bottom row for application icons. > I would like to show only *running* application, not all > applications. > It is used to switch running application and bring back hidden > windows. Yep -- agreed. > Therefore, users cannot use it to launch application. > Launching applications has to be done by another components. > That's why I brought up the tabbed shelf, which is not used anymore. As David said in a different email, we could use the object manager to launch apps, or use Quentin's port of the app launcher that David made, or we could drag apps to the side as a clipping, and launch the app from there. > Another thing about Overview is working with Workspace/Projects. > When we show the Overview, do we show all windows/document > or only the ones used in current Workspace/Projects ? > While project is not going to be implmented any time soon, > we need to keep in mind to support it in the future. I would say that Overview should only show the windows in the current Project. > Minimize-in-place will take some experiments on implementation. > Shading would be a poor man's 'Minimize-in-place' for now. Sounds good to me. > I would like to have app icon along with title text to distinguish > different type of applications. As in my another post, > mac do this with text: "APP_NAME - DOCUMENT_NAME ", > but we cannot force every application to put APP_NAME on title bar. > Therefore, app icon on title bar serves the same purpose. Not all Mac applications add the app name. Mail doesn't, as I'm looking at it right now. Neither does Safari, Transmit, Finder, Photoshop or Preview. Those are all the apps I have open right now and none of them show the app name. If you feel really strongly about keeping it, though, that's cool, but I would prefer we do it in a consistent way: either just the icon, or just the app name. >> Desktop (no icons on desktop, can be set to a user-defined color or >> image) > > Done in AZBackground, I think, except the image is not scaled. > NSImage can scale, but after scaling, it is not a bitmap image > anymore and I cannot draw it on backgroud with X. > So now, the background image is not scaled, which looks fine. :) Is there anyway to add the ability to scale and draw the image? I would like to be able to support properly scaled images for 0.3, as some backgrounds will look really bad when you can't see the whole image. > I comment on the ones which we have some implementation (sort of) > now. > The rest looks fine, but are vaporware to me. :D I like to dream :) J. _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
