Transforming panels in fullscreen effects (was activities overview, take N)

2009-10-14 Thread Martin Gräßlin
cc-ing kwin list. I said it before, I say it again: we need a workspace mailinglist Am Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009 22:08:37 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: On October 13, 2009, Martin Gräßlin wrote: Am Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009 20:19:44 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: slightly off-topic: what would you think

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-14 Thread David Baron
I have been reading or glancing this thread for a while (many longer posts are unreadable because of all the variations of included text being answered). If we are not talking about a one-to-one desktop-activity relationship which might be the most straightforward to understand, in other words

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-14 Thread Chani
On October 14, 2009 08:17:49 Chani wrote: On October 13, 2009 21:34:11 Matthew Dawson wrote: Thinking about the a-containment-per-virtual-desktop mode, I feel like I use that feature as a substitute for the missing ability of having nepomuk tied activities. I'd think once you have

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-14 Thread Chani
On October 14, 2009 06:47:35 David Baron wrote: I have been reading or glancing this thread for a while (many longer posts are unreadable because of all the variations of included text being answered). If we are not talking about a one-to-one desktop-activity relationship which might be

Re: Transforming panels in fullscreen effects (was activities overview, take N)

2009-10-14 Thread Chani
On October 14, 2009 09:15:34 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On October 14, 2009, Martin Gräßlin wrote: cc-ing kwin list. I said it before, I say it again: we need a workspace mailinglist it would be useful; the only challenge is knowing when to post here (because it's only about plasma or kwin)

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 13, 2009, Yuen Hoe Lim wrote: similar for activities - have an option that says 'Associate new windows with the current activity', which, when active, automatically associates all windows opened with the activity in which it is opened? yes, that should be quite possible. --

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-13 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On October 13, 2009, Yuen Hoe Lim wrote: similar for activities - have an option that says 'Associate new windows with the current activity', which, when active, automatically associates all windows opened with the activity in which it is

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 12, 2009, Chani wrote: * a hidden windows button could be shown in the tasks widget when there are hidden-by-activity-change windows around; switching to one of those windows would switch the activity as well? I'm not sure. we don't do that for desktops. but because we don't

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-13 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On October 12, 2009, Chani wrote: * a hidden windows button could be shown in the tasks widget when there are hidden-by-activity-change windows around; switching to one of those windows would switch the activity as well? I'm not sure.

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009 19:31:45 schrieb Marco Martin: a generic trigger kwin effect plasmoid should almost be a Junior Job :) yeah :) both that and modifying kwin to gve it all the necessary atoms to activate all the needed effects :) Just give us a list which effects should be

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 13, 2009, Martin Gräßlin wrote: both that and modifying kwin to gve it all the necessary atoms to activate all the needed effects :) Just give us a list which effects should be activated by a plasmoid and we can add the atoms (which is everything except generic :-P) I think

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 13, 2009, Martin Gräßlin wrote: Am Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009 20:19:44 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: On October 13, 2009, Martin Gräßlin wrote: both that and modifying kwin to gve it all the necessary atoms to activate all the needed effects :) Just give us a list which effects

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-13 Thread Matthew Dawson
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 13:09:26 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On October 12, 2009, Chani wrote: * in a-containment-per-virtual-desktop mode (which i'm starting to feel small amounts of regret over offering ... but maybe i'm just being pessimistic :) the Choose Activities would be

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-12 Thread Chani
so what's wrong with the overview thing in gnome-shell? in one word: it's modal. now that I think about it, that's part of what was wrong with the zui too. applications would get little dummy representations of themselves drawn in little boxes. i kept thinking this is really just another

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-12 Thread Chani
* in the same panel controller window that we now show the Add Widgets interface, we could show a Choose Activity interface. it would share a lot of presentation code with Add Widgets for consistency. so just a list of thumbnails? could be. since it's not modal, if you wanted to move

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 October 2009, Chani wrote: so what's wrong with the overview thing in gnome-shell? in one word: it's modal. now that I think about it, that's part of what was wrong with the zui too. applications would get little dummy representations of themselves drawn in little boxes.

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 October 2009, Chani wrote: * in the same panel controller window that we now show the Add Widgets interface, we could show a Choose Activity interface. it would share a lot of presentation code with Add Widgets for consistency. so just a list of thumbnails? could be.

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-12 Thread Chani
* a New Activity tab would appear Active and Stored and would allow you to create a new activity, including picking what kind of activity and optionally what other activity you would like to clone interesting. I ended up going with the don't force any decisions, just create the

activities overview, take N

2009-10-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi all ... so i've been piddling away at code-level design work for the activities overview. and i kept finding myself getting frustrated by it. the ideas are sound (mapping windows to activities, a simple activity switcher...) and yet the word but kept coming up in the back of my head. in

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-11 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: hi all ... so i've been piddling away at code-level design work for the activities overview. and i kept finding myself getting frustrated by it. the ideas are sound (mapping windows to activities, a simple activity

Re: activities overview, take N

2009-10-11 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 11 October 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: hi all ... so i've been piddling away at code-level design work for the activities overview. and i kept finding myself getting frustrated by it. the ideas are sound (mapping windows to activities, a simple activity switcher...) and yet