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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: multi-screen management
From:       Diego Moya <turingt () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-08-30 17:03:30
Message-ID: AANLkTimHX4zNBnMXnycijdW9i5m9T_E6tkkgOdjY4qXG () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 18 August 2010 08:42, Chani wrote:

>
> Another tricky issue: how to represent the containments? If someone can get
> thumbnails of containments working properly I will give them lots of beer
> and
> hugs. :) Im the meantime... well, a grid of identical icons isn't very
> useful.
> there probably ought to be something thing-like for the dragging... I'm not
> sure how much trouble the user will have remembering which containment they
> left where. if fact, if they drag one icon to another identical icon, what
> is
> there to tell them the two containments were swapped at all?
>

For want of a (thumb)nail... you could identify containments by showing the
list of icons of the widgets included in it. A containment would be uniquely
identified by the list of elements it contains.

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<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 August 2010 08:42, Chani <span \
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Another tricky issue: how to represent the containments? If someone can get<br>
thumbnails of containments working properly I will give them lots of beer and<br>
hugs. :) Im the meantime... well, a grid of identical icons isn&#39;t very \
useful.<br> there probably ought to be something thing-like for the dragging... \
I&#39;m not<br> sure how much trouble the user will have remembering which \
containment they<br> left where. if fact, if they drag one icon to another identical \
icon, what is<br> there to tell them the two containments were swapped at \
all?<br></blockquote></div><br>For want of a (thumb)nail... you could identify \
containments by showing the list of icons of the widgets included in it. A \
containment would be uniquely identified by the list of elements it contains.<br>

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