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[Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

The whole point of CCSM is to display all available internal
variables. I don't see how trying to "smart filter" them out fits in
with the purpose of CCSM.

The developers have already picked a set of options which control the
majority of the program, in an application called Simple CCSM. I
suggest you try that?

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Frederik Nnaji
<frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> FWIW, here's a little explanation about what motivated me to write this:
> i believe that the concept of abstract navigation is becoming mandatory.
> Any human-friendly man machine interface deserves to move beyond spacial
> axis vs time for navigation..
> I think we can do more in terms of navigation than pan, scroll and turn
> page., i.e. physical movement.
> The human mind is able to understand concepts far beyond physical movement
> along a spacial axis. We dance and swim in water, soil and air
> simultaneously with our eyes closed..
> How could spacial navigation ever be more important to such a being, than
> conceptual navigation?
> To be honest, i believe that the man machine interface was never more
> retarded than with the increasing age of the desktop metaphor.
> Files and folders are the models an Operating System uses to associate
> content objects with other content objects.
> The user should not be bothered with such details anymore!
> We all want software technology interfaces to be helpful in that they make
> life simpler with all that they can help us do..
> I think we can consider software appliances to be our artificially augmented
> sense of coordination;
> imagine searching the www with only the usage of scrollbars and arrow keys:
> unuseful.
> Sense of coordination is a scaling factor for mental capacity. meaning for
> the ability to identify a known concept when it appears. The system has the
> ability to re-cognize abstract concepts, as soon as it is able to coordinate
> virtual relationships between their elements.
> To put it in other words: Spacial navigation interfaces are useless on
> invisible objects.
> I'd go even further and say: never display unmanaged content.
> Don't display stuff if it doesn't fit into the immediate purpose of
> something i'm currently doing.
>
> when i'm looking for a file for example, i am not interested in seeing any
> other files, so searching for one particular document is more important than
> displaying all of them simultaneously, spacially organized.
> We need to give "navigating" a serious lift.
> To achive this, it would help to put logical navigation into the foreground
> wherever spacial navigation would obviously be more tedious to perform, i.e.
> invisible content.
> The reason is simple, or let me say simplicity itself!
> The sea of invisible (virtual) objects in the world of software technology
> is so overwhelming, that simple ways of navigating it are yet to be
> produced..
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 16:05, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello dear CompizConfig Developers in this list, if there are any.. are
>> there any?
>> A great thank you for how you did the search filter in CompizConfig
>> Settings Manager, that's the kind of filter that makes sense.
>> The gtkfilechooser module was reinvented in Sezen, still its legacy or
>> better to say "aging" version deserves some love i say!
>> let'S give the quick search filter another look real quick here:
>> in CompizConfig Settings Manager, our main control interface to the window
>> manager software control, the search filter for text elements is openly
>> visible, affording itself to the user:
>> There are too many controls to fit into one page, so a UI object should
>> provide for a way to instantly focus initially invisible objects.
>> A scrollbar doesn't give instant access to an object, as a visually
>> optimized list or gallery would for example do.
>> ¹ check the attached screener for visual reference!
>> ² how would this look on all scrollable pages in 10.10 (pages or dialogs,
>> unable to display all of their content at once automagically) ?
>> greetings..
>
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Sam Spilsbury