On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 23:36:36 -0400 Lewis wrote:
>
>Welcome to lSwitcher-dev...
>
>I sent a note to Adrian this morning to ask him about
>setting up a couple of lists for us, and afterward, read
>some on gmane.discuss. It appears that the
changeover
>at Gmane has not gone entirely according to plan, and
>getting lists updated and added is something of a
>hit-or-miss proposition. So, I have created:
i knew there were problems in this regard and that is why
the groups didn't exist.
>
>I'll update the wiki page in short order, and will add
these
>to the VOICE resources page (or ask Gordon to do
that).
>
>Meanwhile...
>
>On 10/19/17 08:27 pm, Gregg Young wrote:
>>Hi Lewis
>>
>>>I'm knee-deep in working on the documentation, and
>>>should have it together later today or tomorrow.
>>>
>>>First, some semantic issues (which may need to be
>>>addressed in the message files, as well):
>>>
>>>Settings notebook:
>>>
>>>1. Popup window or Popup Window (proper case on
>>>Settings tab and page title?)
>>Not sure but we should be consistent. Pick one.
>
>I'd pick Popup Window or just Popup (i.e., Popup, List,
>Taskbar, Widget for the four possible modes).
>
Popup etc works for me.
>I will develop a standards document as I finish this
>manual re-write. We went through something like this
>(Akex and I) with ANPM (what to call the list of
available
>packages, etc.), and we (a few of us, here) also went
>through it with the Lucide stuff when we created the
help
>guide. Studying for my Novell exams, in particular,
>eDirectory Design and Implementation, we had a whole
>chapter devoted to the needs for a standards
document
>(do usernames consist of just first names, first initial
last
>name, etc.?). Without this, these inconsistencies
>continue to surface and waste time better spent
>elsewhere.
>
>>>2. Miscellaneous: General or Miscellaneous (there is
>>only
>>>one page, so why
>>> is it General?)
>>The Priority page now missing was Miscellaneous
>>Priority.
>
>Okay. Then let's use the minor text of General for that,
>or (better) no minor text until Priority is added, and then
>use General and Priority, leaving Miscellaneous for the
>major tab text.
>
No minor should work fine.
>>>3. Minor tab text for multiple pages shouldn't have
>>>redundant names; thus
>>> the following should be changed:
>>>
>>> 1. Popup window: General
>>> 2. Popup window: Exclude
>>> 3. Taskbar: General
>>> 4. Taskbar: Mouse
>>> 5. Taskbar:Exclude
>>This is what I inherited.
>>
>>> to simply:
>>>
>>> 1. General
>>> 2. Exclusions
>>> 3. General
>>> 4. Mouse
>>> 5. Exclusions
>>>
>>> The tab title tells us to what the page refers.
>>Should be easy to change.
>
>Steve related how to do this to Konstantin, as Dynamic
>Icons had a bunch of identically-titled pages. I reviewed
it
>last night, just to make sure I wasn't imagining this. :-)
I am pretty sure this will be easy to do.
>
>>>4. Alt+Tab / Ctrl+Tab ("b" is truncated for both
>strings,
>>>at several
>>> resolutions)
>>Use the correct resolution:-). Probably an easy fix.
>
>LOL
>
>>>5. "Sticky" popup window or Sticky popup (is there a
>>>need for quotes?)
>>No also inherited.
>
>Quotes are going, then. They produce unnecessary
>clutter and impede readability - especially at higher
>resolutions.
Works for me.
>
>>>6. Switch to PM from FS sessions (spell out full
>>screen?)
>>
>>OK
>
>I think it makes more sense. *We* know what "FS"
>means, but as I have been reminded by some of our
>Arca Noae tickets, there are users returning to the
>platform from Warp 4 and much of the terminology
which
>we take for granted completely eludes them. We should
>never assume our users are as fluent as we, as this
>leads to more nonsensical tickets. :-)
Easy fix. I will make the change
>
>>>7. Scroll message divider input box should be 1 char
>>>wider, methinks
>>>
>>>I don't understand the Scroll message divider thing
at
>>all,
>>>Gregg. Please explain. The help currently says:
>>More broken then you think. My mouse is set to scroll
3
>>lines per message so if this setting is 1 it moves it 3
>>icons. If it is 3 it moves it 1.
>>
>
>It's certainly not a very reliable algorithm.
No kidding. What is 2/3 of an icon?-)
>
>Ultimately, a slider bar (not for this release) might be
>more appropriate, like the sensitivity setting for
>SMOUSE.
Probably no more predictable.
>
>>I say this is broken because you set the Ctrl wheel
and
>>Alt wheel for amouse separately. I had both set to do
>>nothing and with a nonsticky Alt-Tab window the scroll
>>did nothing. Setting Alt wheel to scroll made it work.
To
>>make this work I need to make Alt wheel and Ctrl
wheel
>>look like wheel. This will be great when someone
>>unknowingly turns the volume to 0 trying to figure out
>>why this doesn't work.
>
>Indeed, I had to hit the Ctrl key to get the Popup sticky
>to test it. Longer term, do you just want to do away
with
>this setting?
May be it should go shorter term. Easier than fixing it.
>
>Did I mention that Ctrl-Alt-S doesn't work when the
>Popup is sticky?
That doesn't surprise me Ctrl-Alt-anything isn't defined in
the accel tables. What did you think it would do.
>
>>> Specifies how many scroll messages will make the
>>>popup window selection
>>> move one step.
>>>
>>>Now that I have actually been able to get this to
work,
>I
>>>think we could come up with a better string for this in
>>the
>>>properties notebook. (BTW, in the widget, the
context
>>>menu calls this Properties and not Settings. Frankly,
I
>>>think we should change the taskbar context menu to
>>>Properties instead of Settings.)
>>>
>>>Could we not just change the string to Scrolling
>>>sensitivity? Technically, this may be a divisor (vs a
>>>divider, which makes me think of a window split
>instead
>>>of arithmetic), but the end user is going to consider
>this
>>>sensitivity. On my Logitech mouse, for example,
>where
>>>my wheel has detents, a value of 1 is one detent to
>>>change task selection, whereas 9 is three detents.
>>IOW,
>>>I have to turn it three times farther around at the
>>highest
>>>setting. To my thinking, this is sensitivity.
>>It appears you figured it out.
>
>Took me a while. :-)
>
>>>Great quick read:
>>>https://blog.codinghorror.com/meet-the-inventor-of-t
he
>-
>>m
>>>ouse-wheel/
>>>
>>>(Is that *our* Chris Graham referenced in that article,
I
>>>wonder? I'll have to ask him.)
>>>
>>>Thanks. Input welcome.
>>>
>>I will take a look. Thanks
>>
>
>I love articles like that. It's good to be reminded of how
>we got where we are today with certain things.
>
>More to do over here. I'll follow up.
>
Thanks
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