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

[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

The blog I made reference too will address many of the proposed
solutions here, albeit in a critical manner to root out good
solutions. I can archive the conversation in a shared google doc, with
permission from everyone involved.

On Apr 23, 2010, at 2:14 AM, David Siegel <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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