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#106
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Hey, a question for fans of the status menu. It looks like I could get Lanterne into the status menu, but only by turning it into a widget. Which can certainly be done; but is there value in doing so?

Most status menu widgets have very limited configuration options; you press the menu item, fill out a dialog box (if that is even necessary), and go on with your business. Parts of Lanterne would fit into this paradigm (Torch toggle, SOS, continuous pulse), but some things (such as the Morse code page) wouldn't fit. I don't think you want a status menu item keeping a window open and blocking everything behind it...

I guess, the question here would be what you folks would find more useful. The current app has many features, at the expense of being rather complex to use. A stripped-down version of Lanterne would work much better as an easy-to-use widget (with the flexibility of being usable wherever you can use a widget), at the cost of losing some of the more complicated features... What do you think? Thanks!
I think that keeping Lanterne as it is + adding and optional (2nd package) widget, that would just run torch/strobe mode using main Lanterne application settings, would be best of both world.

Of course, widget would depend on main Lanterne package.

/Estel
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