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[Christian Giordano <christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sunil, as you said Desktop is a Directory. It gained value on PCs
because it is a very accessible one. If you download files which you want
to use straight away, it might be the easiest place to save them. This of
course comes at a cost. Crowded Desktops are a nightmare for designers to
watch, but as you can imagine: your order is everyone else's mess.

Anyways, in systems where concepts like download and drag are relevant, the
Desktop folder can still be very useful to not advanced users. In other
systems, for instance mobile, that becomes definitely less important. What
to do if these two systems should be merged, I am not sure. Maybe I would
leave the option to the PC user to show widgets instead of files. I
wouldn't be surprised if many users would rather see their messy files
instead of more or less relevant widgets.

Also, if you remove files in the Desktop maybe you don't need to have it in
the first place and widgets could be overlayed like on MacOS (they would
appear in a less disruptive way), leaving though the oddity of an empty
wallpaper which you would see only on startup.

To conclude, choosing where to put widgets is not easy, mainly because
these can cover very different use cases. The main two being:

   - glancing information (e.g.: news feed or world clock), this could be
   on demand but also accidental
   - provide quick support (e.g.: calculator or dictionary)

Yahoo widgets, in facts, allow you to put them a bit everywhere you prefer.


Best, chr


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Sunil Singh Rana <sunil.rana@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Friends,
>                      On my table I use a big sheet -- almost as big as my
> table -- of transparent glass so that I can display some useful information
> under it.
> Desktop in my computer more or less plays the same role. Its a place where
> I spread my apps windows and use them.
>
> *Why not be make Desktop a widget space.* Widgets that are locked or
> unlocked (to manage them) by some key combination, or a dedicated mouse
> gesture. We could also put a lens on Dash called Desktop which would look
> like a desktop and will allow us to manage all our widgets.
>
> I agree that Desktop is a Directory, but It is a directory that behaves
> more like a table.
>
> I see that android is using that concept.
>
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