Re: [Ayatana] Some thoughts about the home lens

what about these widgets being linked to parent lenses ?

clicking on them or on a link "more" would take you to the lenses.

so in essence these widgets would act as "previews" of the lenses you want in one screen.

i like the idea of adding lens previews to the home in the form of blocks/widgets :)

would be cool to improve the API to do that.

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 16:06:49 +0100
From: christian@xxxxxxxx
To: frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx
CC: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Some thoughts about the home lens

Am 04.12.2011 15:59, schrieb frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx:

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 15:17, Christian Rupp <christian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am 04.12.2011 13:13, schrieb frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx:

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 13:07, Christian Rupp <christian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think that we should use the space for something more informative than
the 8 icons...
http://ubuntuone.com/5nAsW7hEmAs6jvyiq8Z6on

like a widget space, riiiight?

this could be easily achieved by using the Launcher API in the Dash.

there would be enough space for all high-interest statuses such as email, instant messaging & call services, progress on system update or filetransfer or filedownloads and a visual way of indicating, how many windows the browser has open.

Yeah right...
Plus more such as weather or a calender.

weather i don't know, i'd like it, personally, but some might not.

But Calendar, yes, calendar is one important feature that has yet to be properly implemented in the free Desktop Environment.

at least a live indication of the next appointment today and a proper date showing the day of the week.

Of course you can set everything as you like. In my opinion in the USC a widget section and their you can install and remove them as you like...

Pre-installed I would like to see
-Calender
-Facebook/Twitter/...
-Email
-Weather
-events or things to do for the next week
-Music
-news (based on google? news or a local service?)

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