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Re: My feedback on JWM Settings Manager

 

Hi smile!!

_*Thanks for the feedback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*_
I definitely need more eyes, as I get used to looking at it, and when I
make improvements I see a huge issue gone, but miss some of the other
issues at hand.


*Clock:*
I have this setup to where nothing will be saved until you click OK
The reason being is that you must restart JWM in order to see the changes.
This is to enable a Cancel for the entire editing session.
It only takes effect when you click OK.  I suppose I could switch the
two, and have the temporary jwmrc file be the old version, and all
changes are made to the new one, and reloads each time for every
thing... however this will blank the screen while things reload, I
wanted to limit this behaviour.
Is there a way to make this more clear in the UI?


*Add a Panel:*
I will try to only add it after OK is clicked.  Thanks for noticing
this.  This is something I missed in testing, because I always wanted to
make sure the panel was added when I added it.

*Layout:*
I will look at this more.  Some of it has been done to compact the
interface.  I plan on completely overhauling the Panel UI for 2.0  I
intend to make it similar to LXDE/XFCE version.

*Title of things:*
This is a good point.  I like the icon being there though, but I can
definitely remove it.
Does anyone else think this is a good choice?

*Mouse:*
I will fix up the UI more and I plan on adding more features to it as
well, however I need to find the API for synaptics, as I would like to
get away from using system() and some shell scripts... which is what I
currently do.  It isn't the nicest thing, but it does indeed work.

*Desktop:*
I know.  That is the one I haven't reworked yet since the change.  I am
sure there are many issues there.  I also want to enable setting the
PCManFM icons on desktop and eventually set Thunar, Nautilus as well
(just in case someone likes those best).  To me for a lightweight OS
PCManFM is the best, though the 12.04 version is not as nice as >=14.04
version.


And before anyone comments
*Keyboard:*
We need to have a 'Key grabber' to get the direct input for the
keyboard, as the current setup is not extremely amazing... it is better
than hand editing XML for new people, but it is a fairly ugly UI, and
not very well situated.  I plan to implement this in 2.0, but if I find
time to read about FLTK key grabbing, and make a good working test
program I will surely do so!

Thanks Geoffrey!
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On 01/28/2015 12:33 PM, Smile4ever wrote:
> Hi Israel
>
> I tried JWM Settings Manager today.
>
> Panel Settings -> Apps
> If you select the clock format 24h and you click on it, it does not change the text to the expected 24h. Instead, the default clock format is displayed again. Pressing OK has the desired effect however. I guess you can fix it by getting the text of the option and setting that to the combobox text.
>
> Panel Settings -> Add a panel
> canceling the add dialog, the panel is still added to the panel list
>
> General: layout :) Alignment of labels to the left and the checkboxes / values / etc to the right would clean up the interface very well.
>
> Also, I don't think you need to show "Panel Settings", it's already in the title bar and I think it's pretty obvious because I manually clicked on it :) If you still want it, why not putting the icon on the left?
>
> Mouse -> enable touchpad: the label seems to small because when I click on it, the small selection rectangle is too small
>
> Desktop: simply needs work. Why not putting a browse button on the right of the file name and the color name/color code visible on the "Desktop" (JWM Settings Manager) screen?
>
> That's it for now. Let me know what you think about it and keep up the good work.
>
> Kind regards
> Geoffrey De Belie
>


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Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team


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