On 7 August 2011 11:38, Andreas Demmer <m...@andreas-demmer.de> wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > in Share Like Connect, you can select the Connect button, select Activity > > and the activity you want [...] > > i don't know if it's fast enough > > Sounds consitant for things that should be always connected with eath other > but I could imagine that for "quick corrections" (like chat windows opening > on > the wrong activity), even this would get in the way. > > I recieved the following suggestion from Lukas > > > The best idea so far was to employ corner actions. When you hit top left > > corner with your mouse, you get "Now Open Windows grid" (something like > > expose in mac). > > > > When you hit the same corner when dragging the window, why not to have > same > > with activities? So you can simply drag window to any activity in the > > activity preview grid (something like zoom out in earlier KDE versions) > in > > less than 2-3 seconds with a single click :) Also Activites plasmoid in > > panel can be removed - important for the tablets/notebooks > > I like the idea of a simple drag'n'drop from windows corner and could think > of > this really being an enjoyable workflow. > Hi, Its a quick visualization (with couple extensions :) ) of what I wrote to Andreas https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1S5M8LkIz0j6s_caT3T_nDUxMWmUs3p8qkQmMD0K_hWo/edit?hl=en_US > > Yet, I see some issues needs to be solved with this workflow: > > 1. How making it obvious to the user that the opening grid are now > activities > instead of virtual desktops? We need to avoid any confusion. > > Always have the same UI with activities and windows. > 2. How to handle many activities? Should we really show an activity grid > which > would become rather small for each activity when having more than 4-9 > activities. > And open windows too ;) To gain more space something like http://valums.com/files/2009/vertical-menu/final.htm can be done. It means - when moving a mouse, canvas moves/scrolls to reverse direction. In contrast to Valums solution, the items on the edges shall not get hidden, but made smaller. Something like rotating a globe - area with focus is the biggest, others nicely fits it. Or KWins fish eye lens effect. > Still, I like the idea of this grid even if it means that this would be > largely implemented as KWin effect. Oh yeah, I can imagine Martin smiling > now > and thinking "hehe, I told him KWin would be his fate" :D > > If you have any questions - it might be faster to add them inline on the drawing, there they can be discussed individually. Cheers, Lukas
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