Sounder 7 usability notes

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:15:25AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Daniel Stone">
> > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:17:26PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > It'd work best once we have some kind of compositing manager in place,
> > > the about-to-vanish windows could then fade out gradually giving a
> > > visual clue that they're about to go, rather than just vanishing.  A
> > > user who wanted that folder would react to the fade, usually by just
> > > clicking on it -- which is sufficient to restore it to full opacity and
> > > leave it on the desktop.
> > 
> > And, indeed, there's a composition manager floating around now which does
> > fadeouts on minimisation, so customising it to fade-on-exit if there was a
> > given WM property wouldn't be too hard. The difficult problem is keeping
> > the actual app around until the composition manager's finished fading it
> > out; since it's exited and all.
> 
> Not with Nautilus, though. :-)

Yah, but if the window's closed, then it can't receive click events ->
you open a link in your browser or something else unexpected.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
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