[maemo-developers] Moving windows in Maemo

[From: Tapani Pälli]

Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ext Tapani Pälli wrote:
>   
>>> The need for a close button and move option in infoprints is, as
>>> stated before, they just prevent you from accessing stuff below them.
>>>
>>> Example: I can't crank up the brightness immediately (or mute sound)
>>> when the "Connected to AP" infoprint is shown and it bothers me to
>>> wait. Can't interact with the widgets under the infoprint. A dismiss
>>> button on the top right in each infoprint would solve this. Without
>>> the ability to close/dismiss these makes the users wait unnecessarily,
>>> and that is just bad design.
>>>
>>>       
>> Well I don't really agree that 2.5 secs is 'too long' but I agree that
>> sometimes infoprints are irritating, especially if there's more than 2
>> of them on top of each other ... it would be much better to have a
>> quake-console instead. We have had some discussion about more
>> centralized system, 'infoprint daemon' which could handle the queue of
>> messages with more intelligence and maybe user could also read the stuff
>> from backlog if does not want them infoprints to appear. Suggestions are
>> welcome!
>>     
>
> Most of the infoprints should be application, not system ones.
> Doing application specific infoprints (ones that are trancient
> to application windows so that they are stacked with them) safely
> could be quite tricky.
>
>   

Only system-infoprints and infoprints for topmost application would be
shown. Maybe some tricky corner-cases, but I think a centralized system
would make a lot of sense. Infoprints that are not for topmost window
can be forgotten or shown later on.

> 	- Eero
>   

// Tapani