This one will be short. For more detailed information, and a FAQ like
discussion, go to the previous
blog post about Lancelot … especially the comments section.
Lancelot works
As you can see in the screenshot (compared to the previous one, there
are real items in the menu. Yep, Lancelot now shows devices, places…
… and you can witness the item squeeze/expand feature of the list
widgets.
Edit: since this is the page that is returned first (of all
KDE Lancelot related pages) by Google when searching for “Lancelot”, I
just added a link to Lancelot’s main page: http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/
Well, not exactly, but now you can get the general idea, and
you can see what it will look like
This is an actual screenshot, not a mock up:
1st Lancelot Screenshot
Finished stuff
Extender Button
Extender Button is the base of the no-click concept interface. It has
a couple of modes. In the click mode, it behaves like
an ordinary button - you click it to invoke action. In the hover
mode, it reacts to hovering the button (with the mouse) for a
predefined amount of time.
The third mode - extender mode, which
is the main purpose of the widget can be seen
on the screenshot. You hover the button, it shows an extension with a
“Play” icon on it. The action is invoked by hovering the extender thus
minimizing the possibility of accidental invocations.
The buttons on the left are in the in the hover
mode, and all other buttons are (ATM) in extender
mode.
Action List View
This is the component I’m currently the most proud of. It is a list
view containing extender buttons. The data is provided by a model. One
list can have multiple models which is shown in the right list.
The Really-Fancy-Thing (TM) concerning the list view is that the
items can squeeze or expand depending on the number of items that need
to be shown. If there are only a few items, they will have increased
height, and vice versa.
If there is so many items that they can not fit even using the
minimum allowed height, the scroll buttons will be shown.
The shape of things to come
Passageway View
This component will provide fast access to applications. This is the
component that is (hopefully) going to provide fast access to favorite
applications, just like Kickoff does, but will also provide fast
browsing through all applications, unlike Kickoff. There is no point in
describing it now, when it is finished, I’ll make a screencast.
Smart orientation
Depending on the mouse position when Lancelot is invoked, the
components will be arranged differently. For example, the buttons on the
left will be shown on the right if the right side is closer to the mouse
(if the button for opening Lancelot window is located on the right
border of the screen). The same goes for the system buttons and the
search field; and the order of the “category” buttons.
No-click levels
configuration
If you can’t get used to no-click interface, you will be able to turn
it off for all elements, or for just specific groups of elements.
Plasma applets inside
Lancelot
I don’t think that I need to explain what this means.
