Re: [Ayatana] Unity: An interactive Mock up of GUI ideas

[Michael Jonker <citizen.jonker@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have updated the MockUp with consideration to the comments received.
Thanks to all.

http://www.reviveyourpc.ie/unity/welcome.html

1: The side menu can now be pinned

2: the colours and graphics have been reduced to a much more conceptual
level. If something is 'on' it is green, 'off' is white and a system
link is purple. (these colours are only symbolic for purpose of the
mockup concept)

I have not yet implemented closing open apps from the wall.

The revised Gimp file is here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1306731/Unity2.xcf

and the HTML here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1306731/Unity2.tar.gz

The old version can be viewed here:

http://www.reviveyourpc.ie/unity2/welcome.html

The HTML is getting out of hand to maintain - any ideas on a better
platform for his kind of development that can get more people involved?

Michael



On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 02:00 +0100, Michael Jonker wrote:
> I have put up an interactive mock up of some of the ways I feel Unity
> can evolve here:
> 
> http://www.reviveyourpc.ie/unity/welcome.html
> 
> Give it a bit of time to cache - it is just linked html.
> 
> The key features are:
> 
>       * Fully navigable by mousepad tap (therefore screen touch)
>       * Desktop is utilised productively
>       * Only two modes - 1)Application open  2)System GUI root and
>         quickaccess exposed.
>       * Apps get maximum real estate
> 
> For the mock up - in application mode - switching is done by clicking on
> the Ubuntu logo @ top left. This could be a mouse gesture or hover-over
> in reality. On touch it could be a shake of the device optional to
> touching the logo.
> 
> I have attached the base Gimp file if anyone else wants to tinker.