Hi all. I am starting out hacking on KDE and I wanted to check that I'm not stepping on any toes.
I've never used Qt or kdelibs before and I have a full time "day job" so I might take a while. Anyway I hope I can be useful and not just a pain. I will do some bugfixing I promise, but I think I'll learn better by trying to implement some design. What I'm working on is the "workspace/plasma/applets/tasks" task-manager. In particular the grouping behaviour. AIM: (1) on mouseover (of a group item) a taskbar-like widget pops out showing the members of the group it's behaviour and appearence is the same as the main taskbar. (2) left-click peforms bring to front/minimise/restore action on whole group (3) right-click context menu remain the same ...I hope it's clear what I mean :) JUSTIFICATION: (1) Using a taskbar-like widget rather than a visually different menu means the user does not have to switch her mental model and should therefore be more intuitive: doesn't "make the user think". (2) Makes the mouse interaction more consistent: left-click on a window item brings that window to the front, left click on a group item brings that group to the front. (3) means that bringing forward a window that is part of a group or a whole group both require one click not two, as they do currently. If you think this is stupid or it likely conflicts with something that is already being done, let me know. Cheers, Casper _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
