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[Sunil Singh Rana <sunil.rana@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Petko <pditchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 05/29/2012 09:55 PM, shane lee wrote:
> > Widgets are nothing new.  They have been on the go for many years and
> > never really taken off.
> > I know quite a few people using KDE, including myself who have never
> > bothered with widgets after the first few days of novelty factor.
> > Android has a lot of very good ideas but not all are going to
> > translate that well to a larger desktop interface.
> > The desktop concept is far from dead and will be with us for some time
> yet.
> I'm not at all saying it's dead , and I agree it's possible that some of
> the features may not translate good to a PC . It's just that Ubuntu is
> becoming launcher/dock-centric , and the Desktop is going to lose (or at
> least I think is supposed to lose) its current functions . Some more
> support to the idea : Mark Shuttleworth himself said that Unity has the
> goal to be tablet/smartphone compatible as much (if not more) as it
> should be PC usable (sry for the messed up sentence) . So the desktop
> should get some new functionality , and I think that taking a second
> look at widgets is a nice start . Yes they've failed on PCs initially ,
> but now with the experience on tablets/phones , I think they are
> something that can be successfully implemented . What I imagine is a
> desktop with a native way to add a widget (right click ->
> select/configure widget) , with a list of 4-5 widgets (each with 1-2
> sizes/forms) and the option to download more . And a design near that of
> a phone/tablet widget (not a tiny box of a widget,like the first ones
> that got out ) - nice big weather widget , clock , maybe options for
> mail, social networks , or watever someone wants to develop .
>  The main idea is to give the desktop some dynamic functionality and
> usability , and if it's native and easy to use users will handle it and
> be happy with it .
>
I agree.

>
> Another thing that I've thought about is making dynamic wallpapers an
> option . I'm just throwing that out there , some day I'll start a thread
> on it too .
>
Could be a good Idea as well. Desktop could be tiles of info. However,
nonfunctional they may. Just something to Display that we would like it to
Display. What we want our desktop to Display could be controlled from Some
where else like appearance settings.


>
> Petko
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