Re: [Ayatana] Making workspaces great (branched from "Farewell to the notification area")

[David Siegel <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guys, this is an excellent discussion. Will someone please volunteer
to organize some of what's been said on a wiki page, or Google
Doc/Wave, or something? Otherwise these ideas will likely never escape
this thread.

David

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Robin Anderson <afisynte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here's an idea for a kind of Mac OS X Expose fullscreen (in the way Apple's
> Front Row fullscreens) way to move either windows or all windows of an
> application from workspaces. Also is probably touch-friendly. I want to get
> the general idea of moving windows/applications between workspaces by
> dragging *icons* between workspaces out there. Hopefully people get
> inspiration from this.
> Two workspaces, Firefox selected
> http://imgur.com/vZzve.png
> Four workspaces, all of them shown and set to be shown
> http://imgur.com/HBmkx.png
> Four workspaces, two shown and set to be shown, on page one, and Firefox is
> selected
> http://imgur.com/4pMsK.png
> Firefox being dragged to another workspace
> http://imgur.com/pRhzZ.png
> Notes:
> Definitely needs spacing fixed up
> I just used the most basic colors
> Dots are page markers, black dot is the current page
> Brightness up or colored at all basically means selected
> Workspace numbers or names might be good
> I hope:
> A good hotkey system would be included to bring it up and navigate.
> The placement of the close buttons at the top could be customized.
> The color of the boxes around the icons are similar to the panel colors, so
> the way icons for applications are viewed across the system are similar
> I take inspiration from these:
> http://iphonehelp.in/content/uploads/2009/04/safari-30-windows.png ;(mirror: http://imgur.com/3ZjhY.png
> )
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/totalaldo/4505453992/sizes/o/ ;(mirror: http://imgur.com/KMvwm.png
> )
> http://davidhayden.com/photos/AppleSpaces.jpg ;(mirror: http://imgur.com/dYYMz.jpg
> )
> Videos of Apple Spaces on YouTube
> Apple Spaces really looks pretty nice, I've never used them though. There
> are a lot of videos on YouTube showing ways to interact with them. I'm just
> not sure how to get people to start using them unless they're automatically
> activated or used somehow. But what kind of initial setup would be good for
> what applications to open in certain workspaces? What names should default
> workspace have?
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Robin Anderson <afisynte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I think a distinction should be made between what would work well on
>> desktops and what would work well on netbooks. Using only maximized windows
>> on a 24in screen for example doesn't sound like something people would be
>> into.
>> As screen size gets bigger I see window management going more towards easy
>> window placement, the way something like Bluetile does perhaps. I think
>> users would want to easily 'dock' windows to take up something like a corner
>> of the screen rather than going between workspaces to interact with multiple
>> windows.
>
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