Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
I have been running Big Board ever since it was brought up on this
list. Some questions and observations:
Is this meant to replace both the top and bottom GNOME panels? I don't
see a equivalent of a task bar if it's meant to replace them both.
It's meant to replace the top panel. The bottom panel will be the task bar.
Why hasn't the package been submitted for review?
It depends on hippo-canvas which is awaiting a sponsor.
The color on the panel is a plain white and doesn't match the rest of
GNOME system colors.
I think GNOME upstream was talking about moving to white. But, true.
It does need more visual design.
I see no way to move the panel around either. I can understand the
lack of a quit option if it is meant to replace the panel.
The former will hopefully be added soon. As for a quit I'd like to be
able to minimize it to the bottom panel basically or the like,
but it needs some interaction design there.
Is big board tied to mugshot? What if I don't have a mugshot account?
Trying to change the pic shown on the identity, application
descriptions, more button in calendar etc launches mugshot pages.
We're using Mugshot as the server basis, yep. We're using it as
basically a public service where we can store data online like the
preferred applications and photo.
The icons including facebook, flickr etc doesn't have any tooltips.
The functionality of deskbar is not obvious.
Hm, tooltip functionality seems to have broken in the canvas recently.
Can you explain a bit more about what you expected the search box to do,
but didn't? Or it did that you didn't expect?
The more link on applications launches a side panel. The descriptions
near the search button sometimes overflows the boundary. Example:
Epiphany.
Yeah, I hope to fix that soon.
Installing a new application via the menu launches a command line yum
command. Though it works this is crude. You should be using the Yum
API and integrating with Pirut instead.
Right.
Clicking on another area of the desktop doesn't close this menu or
even move it away which is annoying.
Hm; did you expect clicking elsewhere to close it? What outside of the
desktop context did you want to switch to?
There are three sections - applications, photos and calendar. If i
don't intend to use any or all of these sections in the panel there is
no way to remove them although clicking on it minimizing the section
within the panel.
Yeah, portfolio management is something we will need to add, but I think
in the short short term we are going to get rid of the calendar stock
and replace it with a people stock which should be more useful.
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