On Sunday, February 13, 2011, todd rme wrote: > Okay, I will do so. Not all of these ideas are mine, I am just > passing along the ones I think are worthwhile:
thanks for the list. please add the ones with consensus to the web page. > Image Wallpaper: > 1. When you hover over a wallpaper in the list for a certain amount of > time, show that wallpaper on the desktop. This lets you get a > full-size preview of the wallpaper and lets you see how it works with > your current theme. -1; we covered why already in the past on this list. > 2. Have a "custom" wallpaper position option. This would let you set > the position and scaling in both horizontal and vertical dimensions, > either to presets like align top or bottom, or to custom values in > pixels. This is useful for people who want to have one wallpaper span > multiple desktops, they can set the same image but show different > parts of that image. -1; there are better ways of acheiving that, e.g. actually dividing up the image in a proper, competent image editor. > Slideshow wallpaper: > 1. Link slideshows. All the slideshow wallpapers that have this > option enabled would use the same timing and random number generator, > so they would all show the same wallpaper at the same time. Useful > for multi-monitor setups +1; would also be nice for multi-screen single image wallpapers too. i think this should be a multi-monitor-only option in the image wallpaper. > Character Map: > 1. Lets uses set characters that they use often. On the desktop, > these would probably appear as a list at the top or bottom of the > plasmoid. In the panel, they would appear as a list next to the icon. +1 > Device Notifier: > 1. Double click on a device to open it in the default application. > Alternatively, have an icon on the right with the default application > and click on that. -1; single click means two clicks, so there is no savings here. it will only make the code even more complex for no real win. > Lock/Logout: > 1. Add more options: Screen saver, shut down, reboot, turn off screen. screen saver == lock; shutdown and reboot == leave; turn off screen is better left to hardware keys. > 2. Put icons of the options next to the options on the config dialog. > Pager: > 1. Show a thumbnail of the desktop on hover +1; should be done via a kwin effect just like we do the window thumbnails. > Task Manager: > 1. Drag tasks to desktop to move them to current virtual desktop/activity +1; this already works with the pager. it should be implemented in the "desktop" containment. > 2. Drag tasks to activity manager or activity bar to add them to that > activity. +1 > Search & Launch Containment: > 1. Add breadcrumbs next to the "back" button. +1 (same for kickoff, btw :) > Kalgebra and Qalculate widgets: > 1. Merge the widgets, user can set the back-end. > > 2. History button that shows the last 10 or so calculations and results. +1 > Calculator: > 1. Scientific mode no; start a different plasmoid that can become the uber graphing science monster calculator :) > 2. History button that shows the last 10 or so calculations and results. +1 > Quicklaunch: > 1. The popup button should scale with widget size and position itself > properly with widget layout when on the desktop +1 > 2. Enable and disable labels independently for the main portion and > the popup. Currently the popup always has labels. what would the point of this be? > Folder view: > 1. On hover on the title, show a "refresh" button. when is refresh needed? > Kate sessions: > 1. Right-clicking on a session should give you options to remove or > hide that session > > Konqueror profiles: > 1. Right-clicking on a profile should give you options to remove or > hide that session +1 to both > Preview: > 1. Integrate the "preview" widget with the dolphin part, so when > clicking the "preview" action in dolphin it popups up the preview > widget above dolphin with a preview of that file not sure about this one; would highly depend on the UI implementation imho. > World clock > 1. Let the user temporarily set a custom time for the local time zone, > and the use the mouse to check what that time is in other time zones. we already do that in the clock plasmoids; world clock is a marble thing, though. making it consistent with the other clock plasmoids would be good. > Panel: > 1. In autohide mode, the panel has a nice animation when the panel is > shown. In "windows can cover" mode, putting your cursor at the screen > edge also shows the panel, but there is no animation. Probably the > "fade" effect would be best. +1; this is a kwin thing. > 2. Not everyone like showing the panel at the screen edge in "windows > can cover" mode. Make a "windows always cover" mode that doesn't do > this. -1; the # of people that this would make happy versus the # of people who wouldn't use it versus the annoyance of having to explain that in the config UI + having yet another entry there == not interesting :) > 3. The panel should unhide when you drag a widget to it. it does for new widgets; if you mean drag'n'drop (DnD) between containments, well, that whole system needs a rewrite. what needs to happen is once the widget hits the "edge" (+ some margin?) of the containment it should be turned into a QDrag and "normal" DnD can begin. at which point, the panels will all Just Work(tm). bonus: it will also fix the "between multiple screens", "from panel to desktop" and perhaps even "between multiple activities" problem of DnD not supported well. > Widget Explorer: > 1. The search field on the widget explorer should have focus when you open > it. +1 > Cashew: > 1. Mouse actions for the cashew. Currently we have mouse actions for > doing mouse events on the desktop. We should have the same thing for > the cashew (except for left mouse click, of course). For instance a > user could have scroll wheel on the desktop to change virtual > desktops, and scroll wheel on the cashew to change activities. mmm.. sounds complicated, in terms of configuration. it's possible, but my questions would be: * why just on the toolbox, rather than the whole containment? * what would the configuration UI look like? > Activites: > 1. Remember your current virtual desktop on a per-activity basis +1; this belongs in kwin, btw, and represents an extension of the metadata associated with an activity. that is not a bad thing. quite the opposite, in fact: we want more applications providing application specific metadata to make activities more immersive. mgraesslin needs to +1 this one, though, as kwin maintainer :) > All widgets: > 1. Fix scroll bar middle click. In KDE, middle clicking on a scroll > bar jumps to that location. However, this does not work consistently > with plasma widgets. +1 -- 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 Development Frameworks
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