On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 23:46, Ed Lin
<edlin280@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's always interesting to see with what solutions others come up to
exactly the same problems. In the last days both Microsoft and Apple
let us cast a closer look at their next OS versions.
If you missed them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MnEndww2YQ and shorter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2aaduuWTvo
thanks for the links!
You know the windows snap feature, in Win8 you can resize both windows
with a single handler. A pretty obvious feature which would be nice
having.
tiling. (compiz:tile plugin)
i pray someone will have the skill and courage to code that right.
In full screen apps there is no "information area" (clock and hardware
stats). If they can pull that off the "wing panel" that stays below
the maximized wind as discussed in "Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot
(11.10)" could be an interesting solution for with applications such
as Chromium/Firefox with tabs on top. A click in a screen corner for
example could bring it temporarily to the foreground. If you think
about it, hidden information that is very easy to unhide and that
doesn't have to be visible all the time (if you are working on
something it's often just distraction) seems sensible to me.
Wingpanel is a great step ahead, it needs some design love i guess, but it's really cool to have an indicator-only panel, no noisy appmenu and no wasted space along the top screen edge.
Full screen apps: see how the top panel slides out? They too do
without a clock and other always on indicators, the desktop is just
one swipe away anyway, i.e. it's back as fast as you can move your
eyes from the current activity to the top right.
some application developers don't see the need for a full screen mode:
perhaps using an application is a totally different experience from developing it.
On another note: "Launchpad". Sue them! :P
hehe ;)