Re: Reprise of the panel layout proposal

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

> >Not being an Enlightenment user, I've only got the screenshot to go by,
> >but the question that springs to mind is "How are you supposed to know
> >what application the pull-tab represents without pulling it out to have
> >a look?"  It doesn't seem to be obvious from the screenshot.
>
> Not sure if there is a way (due to vertically rendering text) I've never
> seen a theme that does.  (hmm .  .  . altho, I have seen themes that do
> have vertically rendered text, so I don't see why it couldn't be applied
> to that border style as well.  Maybe nobody has thought of it?)

In other words, its entirely dependant on the theme designer.  One of the
nice features of Enlightenment is programmable themes (like the ones that
include
full retractable drawer side-panels on the screen, etc.).

> That wasn't the point tho, I'm not recommending that everybody jump back
> to E, especially after so much work has been done to integrate
> Sawmill/fish so well.

I, on the other hand, have gone back and forth to each WM and love E still.
I don't understand the politics in wanting to rid ourselves of a good window
manager except that the code base was pretty ugly.  That said, re-inventing
the
wheel is one of the reasons it takes us so long to bring out perfectly
stable code.
If we keep starting from scratch with every new idea, we're not going to
_finish_
a project.

> What I was saying was that there is a real life
> and readily available example here.  Instead of just theorizing and
> doing mock ups, try it out yourself and see how you like it.  It works
> very well for me.

It works well here too.  Its basically the roll-up feature, but sideways.
And with
most themes, it can be to the right or left.  I'd just like an additional
feature (which
could easily be added, really) to auto-roll the window like that after a
timeout of
inactivity.
--
Michael T. Babcock.