On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Emdek wrote: > On 09-06-2009 at 20:09:34 Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Emdek wrote: > >> > do we need the screen position of the click? not for window previews, > >> > probably, but for links it might be useful? > >> > >> Could it be possible to send whole event object? Then we got position, > >> buttons etc. > > > > ... and then need to bind the entire event object into all the script > > runtimes > > and make sure people don't do "unplasma" things with the interface as a > > result. since we need to say "this was clicked" anyways (unless we > > expose the > > actual tip widget to the user of the tooltips, which is not going to > > happen), > > passing an actual event object has limited value and is really the easy > > way > > out. > > > > we should think about what is needed and what we want to make possible > > (and > > what we want to not make possible as well) and provide an api that does > > exactly that. > > OK, right. > I'm not sure if click position is really needed, I can imagine only that > it could be used for positioning window menu for preview or something like > that. > > >> But in case of default tool tips this would need change in limit of > >> windows shown in tool tip > > > > yes; probably need to shrink them or else provide some scrolling > > interface or > > some combo ... shrinking is probably enough. > > What about showing them in grid (if there is more than x windows)?
depends on how it would look; there's also the issue of vertical space used... > Scrolling could be also good idea, for example we could show two arrows on > sides of tool tip and scroll previews when hovering over arrow (maybe also > with mouse wheel). mouse wheel and arrows would both work. > >> There is also case of Composite less or with thumbnails disabled, but > >> for > >> them we can show vertical list of tasks (maybe this could be also used > >> when we have more than four tasks in group). > > > > .. in this case the tooltips should be "normal" and not clickable. > > And what with idea of using tool tips instead of group menu? do you mean for things like the context menu (to desktop, minize, etc)? that could be added... i don't think we need to make the tasks widget not show the group menu on click when there is composite, though. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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