On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Matthew McGowan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello gnome desktop developers, > > Apologies if this is the wrong forum for such an email. > > I have seen a fair bit of discussion about usability ideas for Gnome 3. > Going by a post on planet.gnome.org, the current thinking as far as > desktop interaction[1] seems to involve some kind of multi-functional > left-sided panel. > Inspired by recent discussions and a few other applications such as Opera > and Adobe Acrobat 8, i decided to have a go at developing some of my own > ideas and add them to the mix. I used Clutter and python to do so as these > tools offer a relatively easy way of layering images and cairo textures > whilst at the same time Clutter allowed me to provide some degree of > interactivity (which further demonstrates ideas). > > You can get my main menu mockup/prototype from here: > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/123544/main-menu-mockup.tar.gz > > To run my mockup you need clutter 0.8 and pyclutter installed. > > My main menu mockup, i believe, offers more functionality than existing > main menus... though i guess it is similar to the Novells Slab menu and > Vista's Start menu(?). It would provide a single location for browsing > applications, friends/contacts, places, deskbar-like search, document > history, logout options and system preferences & administration. > > I believe many users would be somewhat familiar with the paradigm i offer > as there are precedents in the software world, Adobe Acrobat 8, Opera, Slab, > and Vista start menu and the likes of web browsers and Banshee which > implement similar UI ideas (with regard to panel-type interfaces which > expose application functionality). > > I am no coder and i don't really know how buggy/attractive the code is, it > runs fine on my Ubuntu 8.10 system... the main threat is missing icons, but > i think it should handle the absence of icons gracefully... Hmm, not so much for me (debian unstable)... Traceback (most recent call last): File "mocker.py", line 986, in <module> mocker.build_mockup( Stage ) File "mocker.py", line 57, in build_mockup content=ExitContent() File "mocker.py", line 404, in __init__ padding=10 File "mocker.py", line 819, in __init__ Widget.__init__(self, w, h, Style.button) TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 7 arguments (4 given) John > > Hopefully some of you will look at my mockup and provide some feedback or > maybe develop some of the ideas. > > > Regards, > Matthew McGowan > > _____________________ > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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