Wednesday, November 09, 2005

mouse over manhatten

i am so jet lagged right now. which is odd, as i usually handle the time zone changes decently. oh well.

woke up pretty early today, had a conf call at 10:00 and caught up with my email. i should probably eat soon, it being 12:18.

the dot carried a story recently that included an image of a mockup of a mouse over based icon interaction thing i'm working on kde4. unfortunately, that image is something like 4 months old and i used it in my presentation to demonstrate one aspect of a mouse over mechanism as opposed to how it would look like in kde4.

so now i suppose once this jet lag wears off i'll have to get motivated and push out a working demo so people can stop emailing me about how that mockup sucks ;)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yay, show us something fresh!!!111oneone...

Oh and since this is a comment by /me here's the obligatory rant from the don't-cripple-konqueror-department:

KONQUEROR's great for everything you do with files, don't replace it.


Ok, done. Otherwise: Yay for KDE4!

Coaster King (back by popular demand) said...

Speaking of rants about "Krippling Konqueror", I have my own.

Why oh why has the split view for two or more directories in Ubuntu Breezy been removed, I mean simplify menu's by all means, just don't do it at the expense of useful features!!

Ahh well guess I should rant to some one involved in Ubuntu.

superstoned said...

@ coaster king - you can add the icons if you need them. i don't think most users use it, and it is also possible from a rmb on the status bar...

Anonymous said...

Coaster: try ctrl+shift+T for horizontal (top) or ctrl+shift+L for vertical (left) and ctrl+shift+R to close active view (just looked that one up)

You can go to settings, configure shortcuts and setup shortcuts for just about anything in the menus/toolbars.

biquillo said...

aaron, I made a few mockups few time ago, its the same idea of yours... I post them in kde artists but I didnt get many responses....

If you are interested....

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menu1
menu2

Coaster King (back by popular demand) said...

Thanks Superstoned and Anonymous? The shortcuts work real well, I guess that most people don't use that feature but since losing it I just found myself going back to the command-line as I had to have two Konqueror windows just to create links quickly (as I don't think one can drag between tabs so easy) or drag to the dektop and then find the new location back in Konq and then move the link back to Konq so it is just easier to whip up a quick CLI incantation (That's just one example but the feature is really useful for me). I guess it's one of those things that once you have started using it losing it is an absolute pain.