RFC: Blur/transparent on lose focus & minimize modes

[jaykaycodes]

Blurred/transparent while unhovered:

Minimize:

[jaykaycodes]

imo:

1. blur/transparency is kinda cool, but also kinda annoying. I could go either way on it
2. minimize mode is nice, but we'd want to hide the Project Select field and the action button, clicking them leads to a messed up UI. What could be really cool is to just minimize to a Run button, so you can keep it in the corner and keep run it when you need. But that'd require some more work

[jahilliard]

Yeah. This is tough. Personally, anything that aims to live in permanently on my page while surfing the web is a tough sell. This isn't quite that though...

For this, the usage paradigm is Farseer is always up while you are in a "research-session". A "research-session" is defined by a CONTIGUOUS period of time (maybe 1-3 hours) during which the user is browsing and collecting data from many webpages either on one or many hosts to accomplish a "human in the loop" scrapping task. That looks like setup project -> run -> run -> run -> run -> run -> run -> run -> run -> run -> run -> use result. (correct me if I'm wrong)

I think with that as an assumption, minimization might make more sense. Having the window up for hours would be cumbersome.

I think it would be fair to punt to a fast follow though.

[jahilliard]

Another consideration is something like this