From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27269 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2004 18:07:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27236 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 18:07:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ob2.cmich.edu) (141.209.20.21) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Aug 2004 18:07:25 -0000 Received: from egate1.central.cmich.local ([141.209.15.85]) by ob2.cmich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7OI24P6015939; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:02:04 -0400 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:04:32 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723A270025; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:07:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:12:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: Lincoln Peters Cc: Xconq list Subject: Re: Three thoughts In-Reply-To: <1093315933.2792.30478.camel@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Aug 2004 18:04:32.0351 (UTC) FILETIME=[CE93C6F0:01C48A04] X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Spam-Score: -0.9 () X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01017.txt.bz2 On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Lincoln Peters wrote: > > Well, I never suggested that other get smaller.... > > Does the MacOS X icon bar have that property? > > No, but I imagine that if the size of the cell doesn't change, you'd > have to shrink the other units to accommodate the enlarged unit image > unless you were willing to obscure units by placing them underneath the > enlarged unit image (which it looks like was what you have in mind). Right. > I noticed that the SDL interface blows up the selected unit to fill the > entire cell even if other units occupy the cell. I find it to be rather > awkward, As do I. I think a more traditional selection rectangle might be desirable. If one wants to see a full-sized "portrait" of the selected unit, it can be provided in the unit information panel. > I de-select the current unit first. And sometimes it looks weird when > several tiny unit images appear underneath a big unit image. Agreed. At first I thought I was witnessing a bug, until I realized what was going on. > I'm not sure which solution would work better. It might be necessary to > implement both solutions and see which holds up better in practice. That might be not be a bad idea. But, I am not going to volunteer to write both solutions. > http://homepage.mac.com/lmpeters/cell-closeup2.png Interesting.... Eric