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[Duncan McGreggor <duncan.mcgreggor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cody and Ted, when you get a chance, could you take a look at this as
well? Ikbel will be able to really benefit knowing the sorts of things
you have in mind for applications in Natty...

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On 08/26/2010 11:35 AM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Chase Douglas
> <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
>> How do you map applications to windows? Is it based on the window title?
>> If so, I suggest defining the "Application" property as a regex so
>> titles can be matched easily no matter what their format.
>>
> 
> Yes, because I think window title matching is easier for the user than the
> windowid.
> I'll extend this to regex as you stated.
> 
> 
>> As for the triggers, I think some suggestions would be helpful. For
>> example, if gtk scroll events shift contents of a window by 30 pixels,
>> then a suggested trigger for a scroll event through ginn should be 30
>> pixels. That way a user can scroll a document and there will be a
>> one-to-one mapping between physical and screen space.
>>
> 
> Good point ! I also asked the question of how that trigger should be chosen
> without testing.
> 
> 
>> If toolkits have a way to dynamically set the scroll amount, it might be
>> worthwhile to define a trigger that is in scroll sizes, like "1S" might
>> mean 1 scroll size, which would translate to 30 pixels in the above
>> scenario. I'm not sure how feasible this is, but it's worth taking a
>> look at.
>>
> 
> I'll look in this. Maybe we can solve the problem in the reverse way, modify
> the trigger in the configuration according to the known application
> scrolling value. We have here a device dependent move property and another
> application dependent one. I need to look and see what is possible to do.
> 
> Otherwise, I like the concepts here.
> 
> Thanks !
> 
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