[Haiku-commits] r27605 - in haiku/trunk/src/apps: . screenshot

[julun]

Hi,

julun schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Axel Dörfler schrieb:
>> Hi Karsten,
>>
> 
> < snip>
> 
>>> But menus are a no go for me. I don't like the way this works to 
>>> set something, see e.g Deskbars options. To simply turn on 
>>> seconds, euro date, expando or whatever one has to perform a 
>>> bunch of off steps and start over and over again. Popup menus are 
>>> even worse, e.g ActivityMonitor is kind of frustrating to turn on 
>>> some options there. Even if these actions are performed only once 
>>> it could be done better.
>> Completely agreed. However, menus would very nice for this stuff if 
>> they could be made sticky in the sense that they stay open until you're 
>> done with selecting. Deskbar already has some sort of a settings 
>> window, so that could be extended, though. But especially in apps like 
>> ActivityMonitor, it doesn't make any sense to ever show much of an UI 
>> as part of the standard window, as that simply is not what this app is 
>> about.
> 
> Yes, i totally agree that there's no need to show it all the 
> time. No Question.  :)
> 
>> I don't have a good solution for this in general. Maybe a button that 
>> opens a floating window that contains the options. Not sure if I would 
>> like this much better, though.

I had a short look at OSX's Activity Monitor, and yes if our tabs 
wouldn't suck and look that ugly we could even go there way. I 
like the grouping on the bottom, no need to enable something and 
a process list is nice as well. Feels 'complete' somehow.

Kind regards,
Karsten