Hover Opacity Change

[VisionInit]

Can we have widgets fade into the background, only to fade in when hovered over?

It might be a wishlist thing, because I don't know the exact use case yet.. but here is an example

I use folder view to display my home folder. I don't need it to display all of the time. I know where I could hover though if I needed it!

It might also be nice to remove desktop icons, and set up one of these folder views to replace that functionality.

This could be a configurable option.. good for people that like minimalism and clean displays.

[Rastko Karadzic (rastkokaradzic)]

I think that there is no point implementing that because you will not save
any space on desktop, it will just be hidden.
On Jun 12, 2012 7:38 PM, "Justin Riddiough" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Can we have widgets fade into the background, only to fade in when
> hovered over?
>
> It might be a wishlist thing, because I don't know the exact use case
> yet.. but here is an example
>
> I use folder view to display my home folder. I don't need it to display
> all of the time. I know where I could hover though if I needed it!
>
> It might also be nice to remove desktop icons, and set up one of these
> folder views to replace that functionality.
>
> This could be a configurable option.. good for people that like
> minimalism and clean displays.
>
> ** Affects: screenlets
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
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[VisionInit (visioninit)]

The intention is not to save space, but to be able to reduce clutter.

Here is a use case that I thought of. I have a bunch of informational screenlets - such as network bandwidth, a terminal screenlet showing the top processes, another terminal screenlet showing open network connections. These are things I use frequently enough, that I would love to be able to gesture over part of the desktop to have that information simply 'appear'

And then go away and not distract me when I am done.

[VisionInit (visioninit)]

It also could be something else like

Hover Opactiy
Fade Opacity
Duration

Then for folks that want to keep it visible but dim it, that would be an option too