Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Widget Discussion: TransientContentBar

2012-09-04 Thread Cassidy James
And regarding the back/forward actions, they'd be keyboard-friendly as well. And possibly multitouch-swipe-friendly. ;) -- *Cassidy James* | *Design, Community, and Council* elementary OS cass...@elementaryos.org / elementaryos.org -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-communit

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Widget Discussion: TransientContentBar

2012-09-04 Thread Cassidy James
> > Regarding the mockup, I'm not really fond of the idea of using it in image > viewers in windowed mode. Unlike Audience which doesn't have any controls > that are supposed to be accessed frequently, the "previous image" and "next > image" are typically used rather frequently in photo viewers. Us

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Widget Discussion: TransientContentBar

2012-09-04 Thread Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
2012/9/4 Cody Garver > You've got some time to draft it, I don't think a satisfactory version of > clutter (2.0?) will be out until 13.04. > > Talk to tom95 or ricotz for more details. > > But it would at least make me feel better if Audience's control bar were a > granite widget of some form. >

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Widget Discussion: TransientContentBar

2012-09-04 Thread Cody Garver
You've got some time to draft it, I don't think a satisfactory version of clutter (2.0?) will be out until 13.04. Talk to tom95 or ricotz for more details. But it would at least make me feel better if Audience's control bar were a granite widget of some form. -- Cody Garver On Sep 3, 2012, at 1

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Widget Discussion: TransientContentBar

2012-09-03 Thread Daniel Foré
Yea I think some kind of overlay widget could probably be helpful for media apps. We should probably make a list of apps that already have something similar and try to find a common ground. Also, for every time you link to Google+, I'm going to reach through the Internet and slap you. Because

[Elementary-dev-community] Widget Discussion: TransientContentBar

2012-09-03 Thread Cassidy James
I've been looking at some UI paradigms lately, and one I see used frequently is some sort of transient bar used when viewing visually-rich content. Take out your mobile platform of choice. View a video. See that bar that has some controls on it? That's what I'm talking about. We already have a sim