Addison | # 61 | 2010-05-03, 22:40 | Report

Okay, I give up Kroll!

What on earth does your é¿ñÑ«0013.3gp do?


EDIT:
Nevmind, just found out that it's a video file.

I tried watching it but couldn't see a thing on what you were actually doing there. Sorry.

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Kroll | # 62 | 2010-05-04, 04:49 | Report

haha, I think u have problems with Cyrillic Never mind
BTW, If you are still waiting my theme - you should check out my youtube channel.

Addison | # 63 | 2010-05-04, 05:23 | Report

Yeah, I've been meaning to subscribe to your channel. You'll be the first one I've ever subscribed to by the way.

I'll get to that tonight. Thanks!

silvermountain | # 64 | 2010-05-04, 05:34 | Report

Omg, the "Diablo5" is looking amazing - when can we realistically expect to have it packed up for "us who waits so paitently"?

Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySUOv...QY&feature=sub

Mitrandir | # 65 | 2010-05-04, 05:36 | Report

Sorry that i didn't answer so long - i had a very busy weekend.

Sorry for such long post, but i have missed many interesting topics here
In the order:

1. Power usage. I believe that Telescope should not affect power consumption. Telescope is purely event-driven, it doesn't use any timers and has not any other regular activity. Thanks to XDamage extension, it does not any regular polls to acquire up-to-date window contents - X.Org server sends it to Telescope automatically.
Of course, if you will keep you tablet for long time with, for example, animated GIF in browser window, Telescope will receive XDamage events on every frame change, and it will do a minimal action on every event (but it will not do any drawings unless Telescope window is shown). But i'm sure that this minimal activity is nothing compared to browser's activity to show that animation.
So, i believe that if you will keep your tablet at night without any application running, or with application that will not do any regular drawing, Telescope will not affect you battery consumption at all.
But of course, if you insist that telescope does affects it, i will do tracing and profiling to check this, because power usage is most important concern for any mobile application.

2. Theming. Yes, as Kroll pointed, window decorations in Telescope can be easily themed by altering images at /usr/share/telescope/. You are free to even change dimensions of these images. But them, of course, must have same height.
But actually, i now thinking about dropping these images and implementing drawing of decorations purely by software, using gradients. This will give user ability to easily change colors of decorations without need to rerender and replace images. But it needs to be investigated how it will affect speed of drawing.

3. Accident appearing of Telescope after closing a window. Yes, i confirm this as a bug. The fix is ready and will be included in pending release.

4. Some ugly bars over the wallpaper in Telescope window. I tried hard to reproduce the bug (honestly!), but i haven't seen any bars. (Doesn't you call window previews and decorations as "bars"? As english is neither mine, nor Kroll's native language, it may take long untill we'll catch the joke). Accident appearing of telescope itself is fixed, as in #3.

5. More actions on hardware keys. I'm working on this. I hope with next release you will be able to assign any action on any hardware button (including shell commands). Addison: but if you want globally reassign +/- keys, how will you change the volume and zoom?

6. Pidgin menus change it's sizes. Very interesting, will post the bug and investigate it. As i remember, Pidgin's menus are n
ever matched my tablet's size

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Alister | # 66 | 2010-05-04, 06:53 | Report

Now that was an exhaustive answer. I've got no other questions.

Thanks, this was an annoying thing to me.

It was a joke, sorry for that. And спасибо.

Addison | # 67 | 2010-05-04, 07:15 | Report

Would you try out that simple script I posted just to get a feel for it?

Once you do, perhaps you could think of a better way to have such a feature.

But yes, I agree, having it as a global setting isn't too hot of a concept.

Alister | # 68 | 2010-05-04, 07:34 | Report

I could imagine key combos, like holding the swap key and pressing "+" or "-" on my n800...

Mitrandir | # 69 | 2010-05-04, 07:48 | Report

Alister, no probs. Actually, humor is most hard, but most enjoyable part of the language
Do you think that combo press will be convient?..

Addison, i have tried your script -- yes, it's quite cool to switch windows with zoom keys. But these keys are also useful with their native meaning... Unfortunately, N8x0 have too few hardware buttons
Of course, we can map +/- keys to matchbox next/last actions while telescope is active. But pressing F5->plus and F5->minus is not so cool...

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Addison | # 70 | 2010-05-04, 08:01 | Report

Yeah, I'm still agreeing with you there chief!

Most creative thing I can think of would be a mix of Alister's suggestion. Perhaps holding down a key while pressing on the screen.

Who ever does both of those at the same time?

Maybe perhaps?