RE: Re: xDesk opinions?

> From: news [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Wolven
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:21 PM
> To: litestep-HzvBz7w1J3cIFlVeWT/[email protected]
> Subject: [Litestep] Re: xDesk opinions?
> 
> I noticed a funny side effect when I had wallpaper coloring 
> on; when I moved a window with positioning commands (i.e., 
> instantaneous, as opposed to dragging it), I'd end up with 
> more than one copy of the window on my screen for a short 
> time. IOW, there'd be a ghost window that wasn't erased until 
> after the new one had been drawn. I suspect the same thing 
> goes on when dragging a window, it's just less noticeable - 
> and probably depends on your graphics card and how fast your 
> PC is. Without the wallpaper colorization there was no visible lag.

Hmm...I can see why this would happen. I wonder if during the colorizing
the wallpaper, it is doing extra redrawings?

> > There seems to be some importance in the "ondrop" event. Other than 
> > making shortcuts, what good is this feature?
> 
> Well, you can simulate dragging files onto the desktop I 
> suppose, just like in good ol' windoze.

That's what I thought it was. I think that will have to be a feature
that will be defined in the users personal.rc

> > Also, do jDesk settings in the personal.rc interfere at all 
> with this
> > module?
> 
> Nope, the settings all have different names, so there aren't 
> any conflicts, at 
> last not that I've noticed.
> 
> I also found that my menus worked better if I triggered them 
> on the "up" events; 
> if they appeared on the down events, I'd often trigger the 
> action associated 
> with that button on the popup, too. For example, when I 
> triggered my standard 
> right-click menu on the down event, it would simultaneously 
> "shade" the menu, 
> because the menu got the right-click event also. Changing the 
> menus to appear on 
>   "ClickUp" instead made that problem go away.

This kind of feedback is excatly what I was looking for. That is
something I didn't think of.

> I've got it set up so that I can control-middle-click and/or 
> scroll to mute or 
> change the volume. Works great for me. Here's my current 
> "click" config:
> 
>   ;--- Mouse actions
> 
>   *xDeskOnLeftClickUp	.shift	!PopupTheme
>   *xDeskOnLeftClickUp	.ctrl	!PopupTasks
> 
>   *xDeskOnRightClickUp	.none	!Popup
>   *xDeskOnRightClickUp	.shift	!PopupModuleDocs
>   *xDeskOnRightClickUp	.ctrl	!PopupMyShortcuts
> 
>   *xDeskOnMiddleClickUp	.shift	!execute [$filemanager$ 
> $Desktop$]
> 
>   *xDeskOnMiddleClickUp	.ctrl	!umsliderMute 0
>   *xDeskOnWheelUp	.ctrl	!umsliderVolumeUp 0
>   *xDeskOnWheelDown	.ctrl	!umsliderVolumeDown 0

I wonder, would it be a good idea to include a xDesk specific
personal.rc for people if this module were to be included with a theme?

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