On Friday 25 February 2011, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > You would like my solution to this problem....... I call its space :) > the desktp is a view on a linear expanding space (it just expandes side > ways)... that revolves into itself, (you can make the space grow or shrink > ). and you can scrool the space in your desktop view.... This is not much > difrent from the desktop we have now, just that you can stop a view in > betwin virtual desktops. > > Ortogonal to this space you would have activities that are simple > colections of spaces, in an activity everything can be diferent. just like > in our cuurrent activities.... wen you browse them you woud see stacks of > spaces piled one ot top of the other....
let's call this "analog" virtual desktops, where your viewport can be positioned in any place of the extended huge desktop > Problems.... aparently the way virtual desktops are build do not alow this > to be real, secondly I would have to make realy huge wallpaper that would not sure about our virtual desktops right now.. seems that the workspaces of compiz are slightly nearer to the concept > be continous strips. Third, a realy elegant presentation of this concep > needs a opengl canvas. what about a wallpaper that is just *slightly* bigger and have an huge parallax effect? ;) (even the space for widgets shouldn't be much bigger, i think) > But this would solve the problem as it realy makes activities and desktops > ortogonal visualy speaking. plus it woul be somthing that relates much more > to real life space tends to be circular around us...we can put documents > out of our view but easy to reach it by simply movig our view to it... btw, to see a bit how this could behave, unfortunately somebody already tought about this already (and even more unfortunately, it's a windows application) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-R2SU4dKa8 http://www.360desktop.com/ Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
