From kde-panel-devel Wed Mar 31 15:41:33 2010 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:41:33 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Re: PMC use case Message-Id: <201003310841.34691.aseigo () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=127005013901022 On March 31, 2010, daitheflu@free.fr wrote: > I'd rather put the whole "mode access" to a dedicated panel that wouldn't > change. this is the home page. > And keep the controls in the top bar or wherever you want. (I'm that's the idea. > still not convinced that a common control bar is the best thing, even if > available buttons and controls change according to the mode). on-screen controls are required, and our choice is to make them common and shared so that the code is kept minimal and the look 'n feel is consistent. > So just have > to make it appear and select the mode you want, from wherever you are. If > the mode is already playing, it just gains focus. this adds visual clutter and adds button presses ("expensive" with a remote control) all to avoid one jump to the home page. not worth it imho. > Exceptions aren't good *imho* because they are hard to deal with, because > anytime someone will add a mode, you'll have to decide what exceptions to > make. And those probably won't be everyone's. with the mechanism i described, this isn't a problem. each mode describes the control layout it needs, but it's up to the MediaController itself to do the layout based on that description. it can keep the consistent things consistent, while the mode provides the custom bits. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel