Re: [Opentracker-develop]Re: Nightly build tarball not up-to-date

[Axel <ax...@pi...>]

"Simon Taylor" <sim...@ga...> wrote:
> >> - It took me some time to figure how to display it (In fact, I had 
> > > to 
> >> look at TimeView.cpp to understand LMB must be kept pressed a few 
> >> seconds). On Fedora, the calendar appears at first LMB click. It's 
> >> more "intrusive" but it's easy to figure how it works.
> > At first, I had it in the right click menu; but that didn't look 
> > good, 
> > and, as you say, was kinda intrusive. And misplaced in my opinion.
> > BTW you only need to press the button (left or middle) less than 
> > one 
> > second - although that depends on the time you've chosen as a 
> > double-
> > click frame.
> I've never seen any other app that uses this method - click and
> hold to do something. I don't know how it's implemented (a

Oh, okay, go to your desktop, and hold the left mouse button for a 
while and see what will happen. Also, this is the standard way to get a 
context menu under MacOS X (besides pressing Ctrl while clicking the 
one and lonely mouse button).

> deskbar replicant?), but I think the volume control in the
> deskbar is a good example - it appears as soon as you click on
> it, and disappears as soon as you release the mouse button. It's
> not at all intrusive IMHO - I can't see any reason you would
> click on it unless you wanted to change the volume.
> 
> If the main reason for this addition is to see for example, what
> date it is next friday, I dont see why any more is needed -
> click and hold, look at the date, let go.

Ahem, are you contradicting yourself or can I just not follow you? Are 
you arguing against or for the way this feature is implemented?
When you click on the time, the Deskbar will make the date visible for 
a few seconds. Sure, I could also introduce a modifier key (which is 
probably a good idea), but I think keeping the button pressed for a 
little longer to get that calendar is an almost natural extension - 
even if you'll probably need some time to find it.

> > be_bold_font may have a different size, so this could look a bit 
> > odd. 
> > Anyway, I'll see how I could make it more prominent. Maybe an 
> > underline 
> > would do.
> Yes, or a light box around the current day or something. One of
> the most annoying things on R5 for me is the fact that fonts <
> 11 pts don't render bold any differently to roman.

Luckily, that's not the case in Dano/Zeta, nor will it be in Haiku. BTW 
a good work-around to that problem is to buy a monitor with greater 
resolution ;-)

Bye,
   Axel.