Re: My wishlist

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On Friday 30 January 2004 12:54 am, Kirk Daries wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still a newbie to netWindows, but not to DHtml programming.
> Well.... I'm a amateur at that too! ;)
>
> >>It's slow to load, and doesn't move well on the screen.
>
> As to moving a window....
> I've seen a few examples on the net, display the outline of a
> window instead of showing the actual window moving around.
> Alternatively, when a user holds the mouse down (whilst moving a
> window) on the 'Title Bar', one could hide the 'Contents window'.
> Better yet, make it a property of the window widget instead of the
> default behaviour(with optional global properties for all windows).

The speed of dragging is currently directly related to the complexity 
of the contents of the window. There are several ways of speeding 
this up which don't involve what I consider to be hacks (such as 
dragging an outline, and then the contents).

> Speaking about windows....
> Here's my wish list....well, from what I've seen in the
> window_test.html example.
>
> We need a taskbar to show all open windows that have been
> minimized. That way windows, can actually disappear...... title bar
> and all (And save space to boot).
> If the developer doesn't want to use the taskBar (Ie, it takes up
> too much realestate) netWindows can always revert to the current
> implementation.

Ugg. I don't like (and have never liked) the concept of a task-bar for 
a web browser. We aren't building OSes here, we're building single 
applications. Doing more than that blurs the lines in ways that NW 
isn't designed to deal with (yet).

> I like the current implementation of the windows.
> E.g.
> Take 2 windows. Click on one. It's pops to the top. Click on the
> other, it pops to the top.
> That's all well and good in a number of circumstances. But we
> should have other behaviours as well.
>
> Take the case we I want to display 4 or 5 little windows on a
> screen. One displaying a tree, the others detail screens. Here's
> how I'd like to see them behave.
> - Windows should know about their own space. If 2 windows are on
> the same zOrder, they shouldn't be able to overlap each other. In
> other words, they should be able to move freely in open space, but
> not over other windows.

I'm not aware of any window manger of any type that supports such a 
"bump mode". Where would this be useful?

> - Maximizing should only maximize to the avaible open space.
> Minimizing to the titleBar(or taskBar) is fine.
> - Urrmm.... Make them 'stick' to each other ala winamp! ;) (ok...
> that's more a nice to have !)

There was a gravity feature at one point, but if it's going to be 
re-done, it would have to be a global option for draggable items. Is 
this a big deal for your application?

Regards

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Alex Russell
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