Sounder 7 usability notes

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri Sep 3 03:05:40 CDT 2004


On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:00:30PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Daniel Stone">
> > > 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.
> 
> Mmm, the idea is that it would fade a little bit before exiting, so you know
> it was about to close. So you fade just enough to make it obvious what's
> happening, wait, then exit (producing an exit fade).

Right, but it's kind of hard to effect the fade; I suppose you'd have to
have a WM_FADE_ME_PLEASE property that the compmgr constantly polled for
... that hurts my head.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
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