Wednesday, 14 February 2007

Bubbles & more

I have actually been doing some Awn hacking today, and here are some updates:

  • "Text Bubbles" feature is now implemented. You can choose the colour and alpha.
  • "The dock" style arrows have also been implemented.
  • Arrow colour and alpha can be changed.
  • Updated avant-preferences to handle the new options.
*Update* forgot to mention that these features are in SVN, so feel free to test them!!

Heres a clip of the text bubbles (google video page):



No auto-hide just yet, still trying to get rid of the bugs, but hopefully I can commit this soon!

I wanted to know if you guys would be interested in a 'tile' instead of just a text label when you hover over a icon. So this would be like:


--------------------------------------------------------------------
| | | Application Name |
| | icon | Launcher details/Window Name |
| | | Some other useful info |
--------------------------------------------------------------------


This would be constrained to a certain width and height, But I think it would look quite sweet. It will also be useful when I get round to adding the DBus backend for apps to control their icons.

Let me know if your interested in this feature, and I'll code it.