[sugar] Mesh Icon Rollovers Need Smart Positioning

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpg
Thu Mar 15 05:16:33 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 23:55 -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> Working with the mesh tonight on my B2 machines(image 303), I noticed
> that if icons are on the bottom of the screen in neighborhood or buddy
> view, it becomes impossible to interact with the rollover menu
> items(adding someone as a friend, removing a friend).
> 
> I combed over the tracker and didn't notice a bug associated with this
> issue. I will be more than welcome to create a bug and fix the issue
> if I get confirmation that someone isn't working on it.
> 
> Something else that came up when troubleshooting this, is me wondering
> if there is/will be a way to redraw the order of the
> neighborhood/buddy views. I solved this by restarting sugar, but this
> is obviously not an elegant solution in the least. Any input on this?
> 
> All in all, I think that either a way to redraw the the screen, or
> looking at the position of the icon, and using some logic to draw the
> rollover in a better place.

Yeah the menu positioning logic needs to be fixed to take in account the
screen limits. This is a regression we introduced when porting to the
new controls stuff.

Marco



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