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anthonie 2010-10-20 15:37
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
I donīt know exactly what it is youīre trying to say: I did all those things you suggested and naturally, when I mention that itīs a bit of a pain in the ***, changing things like icons because of a theme change, I mean that it is a bit of a pain in the ***. I tend to switch between the graffiti theme and more minimal, cleaner themes. What suits one, does not necesarely suit the other. Hence the question being asked, in particular from a usability point of view.

richwhite 2010-10-20 15:41
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
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Originally Posted by anthonie (Post 846179)
I donīt know exactly what it is youīre trying to say: I did all those things you suggested and naturally, when I mention that itīs a bit of a pain in the ***, changing things like icons because of a theme change, I mean that it is a bit of a pain in the ***. I tend to switch between the graffiti theme and more minimal, cleaner themes. What suits one, does not necesarely suit the other. Hence the question being asked, in particular from a usability point of view.
I understand what you mean now, but your original post didn't make any reference to backgrounds and icons changing, which was my point.

anyway, as for the topic in hand, do you use the same themes and rotate them? Because if you do, you could just create the images and then when you change the themes and icons just switch the desktop switcher icons too.

anthonie 2010-10-20 16:11
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by richwhite (Post 846182)
I understand what you mean now, but your original post didn't make any reference to backgrounds and icons changing, which was my point.
If that was unclear to you, than what does the word "theme" entail for you? Icons, background are not included?

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anyway, as for the topic in hand, do you use the same themes and rotate them? Because if you do, you could just create the images and then when you change the themes and icons just switch the desktop switcher icons too.
We seem to be bad communicators as of course I know how to do this, but that is completely besides the point. From a usability point of view, it would be kind of nice to either be able to choose or to have an easy, less time-consuming way of dealing with the way this widget looks. That was and is all Iīm asking for.

Now, considering the fact itīs possible the author of this widget is in no way interested in doing this, I asked for the source code, in order to be able to do it myself. So far, none of the two questions have had a reply other than the obvious being stated.

richwhite 2010-10-20 16:18
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonie (Post 846212)
If that was unclear to you, than what does the word "theme" entail for you? Icons, background are not included?



We seem to be bad communicators as of course I know how to do this, but that is completely besides the point. From a usability point of view, it would be kind of nice to either be able to choose or to have an easy, less time-consuming way of dealing with the way this widget looks. That was and is all Iīm asking for.

Now, considering the fact itīs possible the author of this widget is in no way interested in doing this, I asked for the source code, in order to be able to do it myself. So far, none of the two questions have had a reply other than the obvious being stated.
When i change theme, no, my icons and backgrounds are unaffected because i don't use the default backgrounds. Even when i had black plastic i told it keep default backgrounds and hicolor icons.

I agree with your suggestion, but that's why i said 'for the time being' i.e. a temporary fix if Nicolai does decide to include this in the next release

nicolai 2010-10-20 16:56
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
Hi anthonie,

Yes it is possible to make the icons configurable or add an
option, so the user can select if he wants the builtin icon, or
a custom icon or use a scaled down background as icon.

If I can find the time, I can implement this.
And the source code is open, you can find the link from the
maemo package view page

Thank you for your feedback and this idea
and thank you
richwhite for your hint for a temporary workaround.

regards
Nicolai

anthonie 2010-10-20 22:09
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
Thanks Nicolai. Will have a look at it as soon as I can find the time.

geneven 2010-11-04 16:33
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
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Just a minor usage note.

I use the system with 8 transportation icons on the first view and previously just used one transportation icon linking to view 1 on all the other views.

Now I have added what I call the left and right carets under each icon linking to view one. This is a lot better than swiping left and right, I find.

Also, note in the screenshot that should follow, the little number up in the status area. That tells me the number of view I am in. There's an app that does that. I don't really need it, but I find it nice.

Edit -- I just had a thought -- maybe an impossible thought. That little number 7 in the status bar -- wouldn't it be nice if you could click it and you'd get a popup list of the numbers of all the views except the one you are in? Then you could click on the view you wanted to go to?

It might be a nice alternate transportation method, if possible.

nicolai 2010-11-08 16:07
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by geneven (Post 863401)
Edit -- I just had a thought -- maybe an impossible thought. That little number 7 in the status bar -- wouldn't it be nice if you could click it and you'd get a popup list of the numbers of all the views except the one you are in? Then you could click on the view you wanted to go to?

It might be a nice alternate transportation method, if possible.
Impossible, yes/no. This is a statusbar plugin. They can not react
on click events. But statusbar plugins can add buttons to the
statusbar menu. But I don't think it would be useful to add
a statusbar menu to switch between desktops.

nicolai

nicolai 2010-11-09 10:58
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
I would really like to see this desktop widget in extras. I think
many users who are afraid to use extras-devel repository would
like to have this widget.

5 votes so far in extras-testing.
Please help us developers to put more apps to extras repository.

regards
Nicolai

richwhite 2010-11-09 11:12
Re: [Announce] desktop switcher widget
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nicolai (Post 867932)
I would really like to see this desktop widget in extras. I think
many users who are afraid to use extras-devel repository would
like to have this widget.

5 votes so far in extras-testing.
Please help us developers to put more apps to extras repository.

regards
Nicolai
Where's the vote link?


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