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Re: [Ayatana] Making workspaces great (branched from "Farewell to the notification area")
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
Four workspaces, all of them shown and set to be shown
Four workspaces, two shown and set to be shown, on page one, and Firefox is selected
Firefox being dragged to another workspace
Notes:
Definitely needs spacing fixed upI 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:
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.
