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psifidotos / workflow-project

This is an effort to create a KDE Plasmoid that integrates the main Activities, Virtual Desktops and Tasks Functionalities from Plasma Desktop in just one component.
http://workflow.opentoolsandspace.org/
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Change Window State functionality #28

Closed bmihaila closed 11 years ago

bmihaila commented 11 years ago
  1. In the "Change Window State" description popup you do not show the icons next to the text. It is difficult in the beginning to match the icons (with the various dots) that are shown on top of the windows bars to the 3 possible states that are described in the popup, i.e. "single", "all workareas", "everywhere".
  2. How about changing the icon for the "Single" state to one dot instead of the rectangle. Would be more consistent with the other two.
  3. Why is a window in the state "Everywhere" shown in the bottom left corner only instead of being shown in each of the workspaces+activities similar to the "All Workareas" state. Maybe it is helpful to know which windows are everywhere by separating them and showing them in the left corner but they should also be shown in the workspace previews as with the other states. It is confusing for them to disappear from there when switched to state "Everywhere"! Especially that one has to move the mouse to the left corner to change the state back. Although it looks nice to have the "everywhere" windows in the bottom it is confusing at first what this bottom space there means. Maybe having a separate label stating that these are the "Everywhere" windows would be helpful. I still doubt the usefulness of the bottom space, though.

Not to forget to mention it is a very nice and useful plasmoid, that was long missing in KDE. Thanks for it.

psifidotos commented 11 years ago

Thank you for the ideas... 1) Because the Tooltip qml element is handmade that's a bit of work but I also believe that it is important. I will try to implement it in the future releases

2) I know, I tried in the beginning but because I am not the best designer :) it looked horrible. I make another try in the future

3) The purpose for the down left panel was mainly for supporting easily the live previews for windows(which it does currently). It was a design decision, I dont say it is the best one but it works. I believe that a label would help I must consider it. About showing a window in everywhere state in all workareas that could be a settings choice along with hiding the bottom panel.

thank you also for the interest....

psifidotos commented 11 years ago

Disabling panel for Everywhere windows is now supported... The windows in that case are shown only in the Workareas

bmihaila commented 11 years ago

Nice, thx.