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[Kao Chen <kaochen2@xxxxxxxxx>]

We have create a new design page in the GnomeShell Playground to promote
this idea.
I hope it will be more clear to understand.

The link is here:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignerPlayground/MultiDesktop

Thanks for the support

2010/5/8 Kao Chen <kaochen2@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> I made a little update of my mockup with a big fat .gif just here:
> http://nsa14.casimages.com/img/2010/05/07//100507083611878936.gif
> I hope that you'll love it.
>
> I am not really aware about the technique.
> But we can use just folders. For each new project (desktop), we create a
> new desktop-folder.
> And we hide a background photo in the folder with a point (
> .folderBackground.png).
>
> I think folders can be very simple to use and easy to manage for the devs
> and for the users.
>
>
>
> 2010/5/4 Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 19:51, Kao Chen <kaochen2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have made a two news mockups.
>>> The first is the overview with a new menu  to manage projects.
>>> You can to drag and drop a project to the workspace you want.
>>> http://nsa15.casimages.com/img/2010/05/03/100503101754810934.png
>>>
>>> The second is a fullscreen mockup with a project activated.
>>> http://nsa15.casimages.com/img/2010/05/02/100502065741947598.png
>>> For each project, you have a widget full of files who belong to the
>>> activated project.
>>> I add an other widget, a mix between GAJ and Sezen, for a quickly access
>>> to files in time.
>>> I covered all the desktop because If you work on a project, you don't
>>> have to use desktop.
>>> But I don't like very much this idea, and the desktop is a little bit
>>> dark.
>>>
>>> So I made a third mockup here, with one desktop-folder for each projects:
>>> http://nsa14.casimages.com/img/2010/05/03/100503101939790053.png
>>> And the sezen dock can be hide.
>>>
>>> I have made a lot of mockups, and each time I regret that a project
>>> management doesn't already exist. ;)
>>
>>
>> while i regret the absense of a lot of features in GNOME Shell's sidebar,
>> this one you are recommending is really hot!
>>
>> thanks for the ideas, very inspiring, project based thinking is a way to
>> go.
>> what i like most in your design is the total disregard of data types, you
>> are diplaying programs, people and files/folders as objects related to a
>> common use - that's incredible ;)
>>
>> this idea of yours is especially useful in implementing the ideas on the
>> open collaboration services spec on freedesktop.org
>> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services
>> the spec tries to integrate commonity with the desktop, collaborative
>> projects are what i'm thinking of in this respect..
>>
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