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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: More fitt's law (well, not really)
From:       Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () total ! net>
Date:       2000-02-02 1:04:05
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Roberto Alsina wrote:

> 
> First of all, sorry for not checking this myself in the sources, but I've
> been coding a lot on my own apps, yet I didn't want this thought to
> totally escape my mind :-)
> 
> I am curious about how autohide of things works in KDE 2.
> 
> Is it kwm that detects the mouse bumping into the edge and then emits a
> signal of some sort (say, a DCOP message?)
> 
> Or is it done as in KDE 1?

There were no plans for this so far, to my best knowledge.

I once discussed for more than 1 hour with Teddy Mihai (of Magellan) about
writing a general purpose container (widget proxy) that would implement
the functionality of "automatic" hide-unhide for any kind of widget:
frames, popmenus whatever. Such a proxy would have a hidden state (with a
"minimal" real estate defined - e.g. a row of transperent pixels on a side
of a desktop) and a unhidden state, represented by the fully drawn
contained widget.

Unfortunately I didn't have the time to do what I promised. The thing is
very easy to write. Perhaps that, to make it easier, it would be nice to
combine it with Mario's "animated menus" routines.

Hope that I'll still do it some day. I'm definitely interested in.

Cristian Tibirna

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