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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    KWin decoration button position widget
From:       Sandro Giessl <sandro () giessl ! com>
Date:       2004-12-01 20:29:16
Message-ID: 200412012129.16703.sandro () giessl ! com
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Hey,

I was working on http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83499. What needs 
to be done there is to mark unavailable buttons in the window 
decoration KCM module. As the current button position widget 
(http://sandro.giessl.com/files/kde/kwin_kcm_buttons1.png) was hard to 
extend code-wise I want to rewrite it and improving usability while I 
am at it.

Things I don't like with the current widget:
- Can _only_ be used via drag&drop. I think buttons would be good to 
make it possible to use it via keyboard or so, alternatively to 
drag&drop.
- Hardcoded colors and look from KDE 2 (?) times. The icons in the 
pseudo-titlebar can be different from the current window decoration and 
thus confusing to the user.

Trying to improve the situation I wrote a listview based widget 
(http://sandro.giessl.com/files/kde/kwin_kcm_buttons2.png):
- drag&drop _and_ buttons
- dropped the preview completely as it's now possible to have live 
decoration preview updates above.

As Lubos Lunak pointed out 
(http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=109992026227558&w=2) it might not be 
the best solution, though (90 degrees rotated, loss of obvious 
drag&drop functionality). What do you think about it? Better ideas 
anyone?

regards,
  Sandro
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