Re: [E-devel] [PATCH] Add distinguish the target site to gadgets

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:54:05 +0400 Sergey Semernin <ser...@gm...>
said:

> Hello, All.
> 
> In message from 20 june 2009 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> 
> > a bitmask is almost reasonable... as that limits us to 32 gadget locations
> > (lets be real. we'll use an int). right now it seems ok, but... in the long
> > run, i am not so sure. an enum and just check if the is_site returns true
> > when passed the target location seems expandable enough for me. :) (that'll
> > give us 4 billion or so locations... i'm happy with that)
> 
> I don't think that we will have more than 32 sities for gadgets in future.
> If that happens, then something wrong with GUI... By psychology, human works 
> with 7-9 essencies simultaneously. If we have more, then sharply increase 
> probability of human's error. That's all is my IMHO. :-)

you are right... but that is number of items (it's actually 7 +- 2) that a
human can keep in their short term memory at any time. but this doesnt require
memory. i click on a shelf - add gadget, and forget. let me list some possible
areas for gadgets:

shelf
desktop
efm toolbar
efm status layer
efm control layer
efm background layer
efm icon
window border
control panel
syscon panel
enlightenment about dialog
menus

... 12 already. 20 spots left. each "location"? i listed could have a unique
gadget type put there. for example, i always wanted the ability to have a
little cpu and memory meter in the titlebar of apps, so i know which app is
using all my mem/cpu directly in the titlebar. no need for top or ps. just look
at the screen. this of course should be offered by a module to provide such
gadgets.  in efm a control layer could be a place for a gadget to go, for
example, when i open a dir full of only mp3's, the "music player" gadget
appears, it changes efm into list mode and hooks into efm actions. clicking on
a file selects it and starts playgin, with pause, next/prev, stop, volume etc.
controls across the bottom of the window... think of one for photos too...

status layer could be a player to just put background info - much like people
use konky or other gadgets on the desktop, here it's be for the fm and the info
could be per-window/director/tree info etc. an icon gadget could be something
like a live preview offered by a module... ?  and so on...

always think things through and think ahead. don't design yourself into a
corner. i can imagine more than 32 spots existing within the lifetime of e. :)

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