[Cuis-dev] [IMPROV] Preferences Menu With Better Feedback

[Gerald Klix]

If you load the VectorGrahics package, many of the nice bitmap
icons are replaced with much simpler circles,
that show some visual feed back on mouse-over.

I suppose, if we want the old icons back,
we need to provide some nice vector graphics/SVG icons
and probably we need to implement a cache for scaled
bitmaps computed from those graphics.

I am not the graphics and numerical algorithms expert.


Just my 0.02€,

Gerald


On 8/31/21 3:39 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
> 
> Yes, Gerald, I missed the pinning, my bad ;)
> thank you for the video anyway !
> 
> I usually pin the 'Open' menu.
> 
> But, If i remember well when i was pinning windows, till about 1 week ago,
> there was an icon on the top right corner. Now the icon is gone and it 
> is not
> much clear how to unpin a window.
> 
> Bye
> Nicola
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/31/21 3:26 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Yes, of course if you do it that way ...
>>
>> On 8/31/21 2:31 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Gerald,
>>>
>>> I `git pull` everything and retest.
>>>
>>> I still see the same bahavior:
>>> 1. run cuis base, nothing of my config
>>> 2. load package `PreferencesMenu.pck.st`
>>> 3. Open Preferences
>> ... here you forgot to pin the menu, if you pin the menu it
>> works like charm.
>>> 4. Select 'Hide taskbar'
>>> 5. => The preferences window closes. There is nothing that can hide it.
>>> 6. `World -> Window -> Find Window` gives me only the "Workspace" 
>>> which is truly still there.
>>>
>>> I would say this side effect of closing the Preferences Windows when 
>>> I change a preference
>>> is undesirable. But, this is just my opinion ;)
>> It isn't a side effect, I get the same behavior, when
>> I do not pin the menu.
>>
>> Please, watch this video:
>> https://www.klix.ch/haver/releases/PreferencesPinning.mp4
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>>
>>> bye
>>> Nicola
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/31/21 12:46 PM, Gerald Klix wrote:
>>>> Nicola,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the feedback.
>>>>
>>>> On 8/31/21 12:38 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks much better Gerald.
>>>>>
>>>>> One thing that i tried to click and it is active is "remove taskbar".
>>>>>
>>>>> I noted that if i select it the Preference menu goes away, this is 
>>>>> undesirable IMO
>>>>> because it becomes not practical for the user to make several 
>>>>> changes and see what he likes most.
>>>> I hope, that your preferences menu was just covered by some previously
>>>> hidden window, because removing the taskbar makes all hidden windows
>>>> visible again. I think I was also baffled a bit by that behavior
>>>> during development. Could you please test again
>>>> and check with `World -> Windows -> Find Window`; I will retest, too.
>>>>>
>>>>> bye
>>>>> Nicola
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/30/21 2:54 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all, Hi Juan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please find attached a (rather big) package that reworks
>>>>>> the preferences menu. My main objective was to provide
>>>>>> better user feedback by showing the currently
>>>>>> active setting where feasible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am looking forward toyour feedback.
>>>>>> If the changes are acceptable,
>>>>>> I will convert the package to change-set
>>>>>> and resubmit it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH and Best Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gerald
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Gerald
>>>
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