1# llimphi-widget-fugaces
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3> The machine of **ghost controls**.
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5A ghost is a control that **takes up no room while it has nothing to say**: at rest you
6see one, taking turns; bringing the pointer close brings them all out to be touched.
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8| what it owns | |
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10| voice hierarchy | `Nivel` — who gets to speak when there is room for one |
11| rotating turn | which ghost is showing right now |
12| learned seat | position earned by use |
13| freeze under the pointer | it does not rotate away from under your finger |
14| strip assembly | how the row is laid out when they all come out |
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16Agnostic of **what** each ghost represents and of **how** each icon is painted.
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18It was born in shuma's header inside `pata`, and it is extracted here because the pattern
19does not belong to the desktop bar: it serves anywhere there are **more actions or states
20than pixels**, which is the definition of a contextual toolbar.
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24Part of **llimphi** — see [llimphi](../../README.md) and the widget catalogue in [`MANUAL.md`](../../MANUAL.md).