Comments on: Comic Plasmoid for 4.7: Creating Comic Book Archives, memory leaks ..

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:58:47 +0000

I like the idea!

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:57:35 +0000

Upps, I didnt know about scroll wheel at the tabbar… so consider deprecated my comments about Control+scroll

By: mat69

mat69 — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:54:38 +0000

Now that I have thought about it, what would most likely work best is a “jump to next new comic strip” (or what it would be called) option in the context menu that has a shortcut assigned.

That way you’d only have to press the shortcut and if the tab does not change you’d know that there is no new comic strip anywhere, otherwise it would go to the correct strip.

By: mat69

mat69 — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:14:36 +0000

Depending on the settings for each comics (save position or not) auto switch would result in looking at the most recent strip, thus removing the highlight.

Essentially what you are saying is that you want an easy way to jump to the most recent comic strips right?

Just a thought (for sure needs more thoughts ), this could maybe be accomplished in the context menu where an entry contains a submenu with all updated comic strips.

In which way works ctrl+scroll better, than scrolling on the tabbar with the scrollwheel?

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:07:38 +0000

I have around 12-14 comics, so not all the tabs are visible at the same time, only 5-7.
I with the autoscolling and the new rss feature, everytime i see the desktop I could see if there are new comics around the current one, and that current one would change each time i see the desktop, so it would be easier to see if something had changed.

Also because this long list of comics, is much faster to go to a specific comic by using control+scroll than using the scroll buttons

By: mat69

mat69 — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:54:35 +0000

The Ctrl + Scroll did not complicate things. The automatic switching did complicate it and made it harder to understand. It was necessary to always keep it in mind when doing changes. [1]

I plan to highlight tabs where a newer comic strip is available. Suppose you have Calvin and Hobbes open and set the checking to every ten minutes. If it recognises that there is a new comic strip it will mark this tab. It does that for all tabs you have. Thus it will work a little like rss feeds. As a result you don’t have to look at say 5 tabs just to see if there is a new comic strip.

Could you please describe use cases you have for these two features?

[1] Stopping/Starting the timer, so that tabs would not switch while you were interacting with the applet, as that was really anoying.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:19:36 +0000

I like your plasmoid, and I dont know about others, but I am going to miss 2 removed features:
- “press Ctrl + Scroll the mouse”
- Automatic switching tabs

Did they complicated too much the code?
What you say you will implement instead of automatic switching, will be ready for 4.7?

Thanks for all the hard work