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Subject: Re: Questions about Plasma Activities
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2008-11-23 0:11:02
Message-ID: 200811221711.08204.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Saturday 22 November 2008, Jesse L. Zamora wrote:
> 1. Why does Plasma slow down so much when you zoom out to see the
> activities?
because it does all the scaling in software. that == slowness.
> Is there any way to increase the performance?
not doing it software. qt 4.5 is probably when this will be available to us.
> 2. Why doesn't it have the capability to just click on the activity you
> want to zoom in to it? I find that clicking the cashew is somewhat
> burdensome.
clicking on the activity would mean you can't interact with them when zoomed
out ... that's not what we want. it's a little bit of magic behaviour.
the plan (for 4.2 even) is to hide the cashew when zoomed and instead show a
"control bar" beneath each containment with some basic action buttons. not
unlike the panel controler in that way.
> 3. Why is the background the color it is? The transparent
> checkered box background looks, well, it looks unpolished.
it's a simple, fast to paint background that says very clearly "this is blank
space". it's common in other canvas based apps that users are more likely to
be famliar with: drawing and painting apps.
when it wasn't that checkerboard people would ask what was going on when they
zoomed out, what happened to the background, etc.
so i put clarity over beauty in this case.
i've thought about a gradient, but that would be a rather unecessary abuse of
horsepower imo ... i've though about putting a default wallpaper there but
that stands a really good chance of making the activities harder to see.
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