From kde-usability Wed Jan 05 07:16:04 2005 From: James Richard Tyrer Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 07:16:04 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Kicker Work - Wow! Message-Id: <41DB9434.90104 () acm ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=110490939018426 Segedunum wrote: > Hi, > > I've just compiled a version of HEAD after a few weeks of my KDE desktop being > out of action. All I can say is that the new kicker work is absolutely > awesome, the new-style tooltips work far better and look cooler than that > 'icon zooming' ever did, On my build, this is a change in Icon Zooming. This is nice. Perhaps it doesn't need to be quite as large with a: "Small" Panel. I noticed that it disables the ToolTips so this should be indicated in the KCM. > and it actually gives you something descriptive to > boot! The animation is also wonderful. I don't like the animation. There needs to be an option to turn it off like other animations have. It may be way cool, but it slows the user down so it is not a usability improvement. There is currently a X priority issue with this replacement for Icon Zooming with intersecting autohide Panels at a corner. If you use the second Panel that unhides and the first that unhides is still selected, the little window is behind the first Panel that unhid. This issue needs to be addressed. Clearly this stuff is being assigned X display priorities; it would be nicer if they were assigned the correct ones. It is a simple state machine problem -- well there is going to have to be a semaphore for each corner so it might not be that simple. -- JRT _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability