The sounds of silence
The past week I have been full of all sorts of busy getting ready to pack up from Denmark and make my way over to Vancouver. Well I have landed and found a free wireless access point, so here is another post.
Bit by bit I have been working on livecrumbs and my other gnome-shell modifications to provide a better user experience. Of course the guys at the official gnome-shell project are doing the same. Sometimes our divergence of work causes me to go back and revisit some of the changes. This is going to continue to be the case until gnome-shell gets a proper plugin system.
I have recently done some updates that bring my changes back into gnome-shell proper. What is interesting is that with the addition of the "application" panel item gnome-shell is starting to look more and more like breadcrumbs. I have also heard that they are planning on implementing functionality that I already have landed in crumbs. Small world.
On the plane ride over to Vancouver I have finished out some smalls bits for gnome-shell netbook edition and will start to land those as time permits over the next few days.
Time for breakfast!
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
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Demands-Attention!!!
It is finally here, well mostly finally here :-).
I hashed out the final bits and have a working version of demands-attention window notifications. It isn't perfect but works quite nicely within a single workspace at a time. Yes I know that is something still on the todo list. I need to figure out how to get window notifications from all workspaces.
Besides that I have landed the core bits I needed to start adding a lot more window action features in crumbs. The next bit I will nail down is undecorating maximized windows and managing them from the window crumb. All the hard work is already in git for gnome-shell now I just need to work out th emutter bits. Currently mutter throws a fit when I try to undecorate a window while it is being maximized...but I digress.
First the screenshot.
The differences are subtle but there. Next to the window crumb you see the ! icon that does a dual purpose job. It subtly notifies the user that a window has asked for attention. It does this by slowly pulsing 3 times and then staying on. It's second duty is a quick way to bring the windows-demanding attention to the foreground. If you click on the ! it will bring each window to the front in the order that they asked for attention.
If you prefer a more methodical approach to window selection you will find windows that have demanded attention highlighted in a soft rose color. Hey it fits the color scheme and grabs your attention.
Try it out, give me feedback. I am sure there are little bugs here and there so please tell me about them. Overall enjoy.
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Saturday, August 01, 2009
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