Hi; On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 15:18 +0200, Kris Warkentin wrote: > > A picture is worth a thousand words so I attached a quick mockup of what > that might look like. > > I'm thinking it might be possible to make the notion of minimizing and > docking look the same from the user perspective. This might fit in well > with the 'one maximized app per zone' model. > > Just trying to come up with ideas. I'm sure there are others out there too. >
Cool, but again, there is nothing stopping you from running something like matchbox-panel-II on top of Moblin and having a system tray - that is pretty trivial to do (You may even be able to get it close to your mock up with some tinkering/tricks). That will give you a tray which looks like any other tray pretty much, the problem is then more tightly/nicely integrating it which is very hard and limiting just due to how the tray is and existing applets are. For example in your mockup; = Transparency is very hard to reliably do (without causing other issues). = The roll over effect will be tricky to do and would likely look ugly pixelated. = I assume apps would cover your tray which will lead to usability issues. Even not covering there will be other space issues on a small display. On there own zone has issues also (similar to being in myzone) This is the kind of thing as to why we're stuck currently with the tacked on feel of matchbox-panel-II. == Matthew --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited Registered No. 1134945 (England) Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ VAT No: 860 2173 47 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
