[sugar] Mesh Icon Rollovers Need Smart Positioning

[Eben Eliason]

This is certainly true.  Also consider that we may be changing these
rollovers to pie menus, so don't spend too much time on this in the
immediate future since the logic may change yet again.

- Eben

On 3/15/07, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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