emergeLauncher's "Live folder" features

[GetReal]

Sorry for having disappeared after creating this topic, but I think I'll stick for a little while since now I own a eeePC, which makes emergeDesktop perfect for it.

Moving on, emergeLauncher's "Live folder" has some main features missing, in my point of view. Those would be:

• Having the option to show the filename below the icon
• Show thumbnails for images, instead of an image icon
• Show folders first, files second
• Placement of the files wherever I want, within the app space.

If I remember more things, I'll surely write them. But these are the ones preventing me from moving to eD definitively.

Offtopic: Hwooo, one more thing, and I believe this one is rather simple! What if, bare with me, Z-order were a number instead of just 3 options, so we could have, for example, 2 instances of emergeCommand one of them being a shadow for the other one and put BOTH of them (still one behind the other) behind an emergeLauncher instance.

I might be making a lot of requests, but I had those ideas so I had to write them, otherwise they would be forever lost.

[MeToo]

Hi GetReal

Welcome back

eD is indeed perfect for small screen netbooks

Those sound like nice options for emergeLauncher but unfortunately computerfreaker is MIA and ironhead is so busy with Real Life that we can't manage to get a new release

I didn't quite understand the Off-topic... Can you explain in more detail or create a mockup image?

[GetReal]

As soon as I take care of my eeePC, I'll try to use it to create the mockup image.

[GetReal]

I can't illustrate it as I have imagined, but try to see it like this.
I'd like to stack 1 eLauncher and 2 eCommands in this order:

• eLauncher
• eCommand
• eCommand

With the following z-order number, respectively:

• 3
• 2
• 1

This means that the eLauncher stays on top of the eCommand which in turn stays on top of another eCommand. This would allow me to have a "normal" desktop with a shadowed clock composing the background as well.

To know more about z-order, click here.
I know it says "needs additional citations for verification", but from what I've read it's correct and explains with more in-depth my idea.

[MeToo]

Can't you make three separate screenshots and then compose as layers in Gimp?

In any case, I'm well aware of z-order

But for Windows there are only 3 levels for program windows: Top, Bottom (above the Desktop) and Normal.

The only way to have what I think you are asking would be to group applets as layers (which would be a fantastic new feature) and then the whole group would have the same Z-order

[GetReal]

But for Windows there are only 3 levels for program windows: Top, Bottom (above the Desktop) and Normal.

In that case, I can live "only" with the features I presented previously.