Sounder 7 usability notes

[Jeff Waugh]

<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. :-)

- Jeff

-- 
linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia                http://linux.conf.au/
 
            "you misspelt 'world dominatrix'" - James Wilkinson