Cody and Ted, when you get a chance, could you take a look at this as well? Ikbel will be able to really benefit knowing the sorts of things you have in mind for applications in Natty...
d On 08/26/2010 11:35 AM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Chase Douglas > <chase.doug...@canonical.com>wrote: > >> How do you map applications to windows? Is it based on the window title? >> If so, I suggest defining the "Application" property as a regex so >> titles can be matched easily no matter what their format. >> > > Yes, because I think window title matching is easier for the user than the > windowid. > I'll extend this to regex as you stated. > > >> As for the triggers, I think some suggestions would be helpful. For >> example, if gtk scroll events shift contents of a window by 30 pixels, >> then a suggested trigger for a scroll event through ginn should be 30 >> pixels. That way a user can scroll a document and there will be a >> one-to-one mapping between physical and screen space. >> > > Good point ! I also asked the question of how that trigger should be chosen > without testing. > > >> If toolkits have a way to dynamically set the scroll amount, it might be >> worthwhile to define a trigger that is in scroll sizes, like "1S" might >> mean 1 scroll size, which would translate to 30 pixels in the above >> scenario. I'm not sure how feasible this is, but it's worth taking a >> look at. >> > > I'll look in this. Maybe we can solve the problem in the reverse way, modify > the trigger in the configuration according to the known application > scrolling value. We have here a device dependent move property and another > application dependent one. I need to look and see what is possible to do. > > Otherwise, I like the concepts here. > > Thanks ! > > > i > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev > Post to : multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
