Re: Patch for deskguide for dragging tasks onto desk guide

[Matthew C Barry <muramas oitunix oit umass edu>]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Hassan Aurag wrote:

> 
>  Very cool
> 
>  Looks like we are finally getting a pager. 
> 
> 
>  I don't want to sound un-supportive, but it would be nice to at least 
> have the ability to know which window my cursor is on in the 
> deskguide. A nice pop-up help would be way too cool. 
> 
>  Another feature missing I think even from enlightenment pager, is the 
> ability to right click on its representation in deskguide and do 
> something to it, like iconifying, killing ....

Umm.. correct me if I'm wrong, but the E pager DOES do that..

> 
>  This way, all we would have to use is the guide and no task-list, 
> since bith can take up more than half the panel on a small display (15 
> inch).
> 
>  Good work, and thanks 
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> On 5/10/00, 5:39:05 AM, Robert Wittams <robert.wittams@ic.ac.uk> wrote 
> regarding Patch for deskguide for dragging tasks onto desk guide:
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> > I sent this patch to Tim Janik (desk guide maintainer) a few days ago 
> ,
> > I thought some other people might like to look at it. It makes it
> > possible to
> > drag tasks out of the deskguide and drop them on the desktop or back
> > into
> > the same deskguide...
> 
> > which is nice!
> 
> > Its a feature a bit like the one out of the enlightenment pager.
> > doesn't do scaled down images of the windows though!
> 
> > issues:-
> >    -size of window when dragged out - this is currently 20%
> >     of the real area of the window. this might look a bit funny on
> >     very small deskguides, eg those in a foobar, so maybe it should be
> >     2 * the size of the task in the deskguide or something.
> >     Could be a preference.
> >    -At the moment, when dragging the task around, it is really
> > iconified.
> >     It should probably be hidden instead. But this hint didn't seem to
> >     work in sawmill. The only effect this has AFAIK is that tasklist
> > will
> >     dim the icon and put it in brackets.
> >    -It sometimes flickers when making the window. Probably add in some
> >     while(gtk_events_pending) gtk_events_iterate or something.
> >    -It should probably use the same window each time rather than
> >     making a new one.
> >    -Can't drag back into a different desk guide. This would be really
> > hard to
> >     fix I think, and not many people have two deskguides, do they?
> >       
> 
> > And maybe it is just plain evil. Anyway, give it a try.
> 
> > Robert Wittams
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-devel-list mailing list
> gnome-devel-list@gnome.org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
> 

--
  o  ooo ooo o   o  [                        ]
 o o o   o o oo  o  [        agent z         ]
 ooo oo  o o o o o  [ muramas@linuxfreak.com ]
 o o o   o o o  oo  [                        ]
 o o ooo ooo o   o  [                        ]
--