Forgot to cross-post. Of course this needs to go to k...@kde.org as well...
On Saturday 11 July 2009 01:20:35 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > So today during lunch, Chani, Marco, Rich and I were talking about the ZUI > and the confusion between the ZUI and virtual desktops. We came up with a > design that would make it less confusing. The idea is to make virtual > desktop less zui-like. Virtual desktops are basically groups of windows > that can live "on top" of an activity (or rather, a context), they can also > be tied to this context. > > The idea is to remove the zoom-out grid metaphore from virtual desktops, > and make it clearer that those are window groups. Instead of adding a > window to a virtual desktop, they're tagged with a group. (This can also > allow for session saving, saving and starting groups of windows. An > activity would have a plasma context and possibly a set of applications. > Switching to an activity would switch to this plasma activity and start the > set of windows related to this. > > The desktop grid effect (which zooms out and therefore looks a lot like the > ZUI) would be replaced by a column-based layout, much like present windows. > You can drag windows from one column to another (effectively moving them > from one group to another). The concept of virtual desktops is completely > replaced by window groups. Switching between virtual desktops is done like > shown in the mockup. A modified present windows effect that groups the > windows in columns is used to visualize this. > > > = Example: Work Activity = > > The email client is started, an office application is started, the desktop > contains a folderview with my current project's work document, and some RSS > feeds that are relevant to my work. > > > = How does the ZUI look like = > > The ZUI could have the background of a faded to black current activity, or > black. Adding and removing an activity rearranges the activities for > optimal space usage (if you search for "gnome shell" on youtube, the first > hit gives a nice example how this could look like. (We agreed that the > visualization is quite nice, but the concepts are a bit weak since it's not > much more than a polished virtual desktop grid). > > "vdesktop" (in fact windowgroup switcher): > http://imagebin.ca/view/YXgSWis.html > > gnome-shell screencast: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcpndKUx4pc > > So much for the braindump from today's lunch session :-) This is quite a > departure from the concepts as we're using it now, and I think quite a bit > of work to implement. It didn't stop us from talking about this idea of > course > > :-) We can also offer a "traditional/simple mode", much like it's now, but > > without ZUI at all. That would just mean keeping what we have now and > removing the zoom-out. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9
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