On 8/26/08, Matthias Welwarsky wrote: > On Tuesday, 26. August 2008, Chani wrote: > > > On 8/25/08, Benjamin Kleiner wrote: > > > Am Montag 25. August 2008 21:54:53 schrieb Matthias Welwarsky: > > > > Am Montag 25 August 2008 17:50 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > > > > > these icons will be big, shiny and happy. i'd also like to offer a > > > > > hover > > > > > > > > > > based interface for them, so you can press, hold briefly, move, > > > > > release > > > > > > > > > > and trigger a non-launch action (such as colour in the "mark as > > > > > > > > > > favourite" star, or maybe things like "hide entry"?) > > > > > > > > gestures are nice but not easily discoverable. maybe just press+hold > > > > and > > > > > > > > then offer some context specific activities in a (shrug) menu-thingy? > > > > > > What about a circular menu, similar to kommando or the circular > > > application menu for gnome? > > > > > > Okay, that would still be a menu, but I think this would be easily > > > accessible with the thumb. > > > > what about corner actions like in dolphin? or would that suck for > > thumbs? ...ohh. those normally show up on hover, and touchscreens > > don't really have hover.... > > aaron,were you suggesting they show up on mousedown and then i can > > drag my pointer to one of the corner icons to select it? huh. > > interesting. > > > I think corner actions are not a good response to a press+hold gesture. Your > fingers are where you pressed the object. The GUI response to that should be > near your fingers as well. corners of the icon, not corners of the screen > > There is also a small (maybe neglegible) problem with most (resistive) > touchscreens: they tend to be nonlinear near the edges, it's difficult to > have precise coordinates there. It's not usually a problem if active elements > are big enough. It's just that this is somewhat diametrical to desktop GUI > design habits, where we tend to have small but important elements to control > e.g. the size of an application window (ok, maybe not a good example), or the > button to hide kicker in KDE 3.x yes, fitts law doesn't really work on these things. -- This message brought to you by evyl bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel