First of all, the image I posted was just to give people an idea of what I've been working on. It's rough, I know that. I didn't want to present it for a few more weeks, but thought it would be good just to show and start a discussion.
> 1. Menu not on edge of screen, so there's little chance of bumping the > edge as a way of finding it. Yep -- bad UI. I hate it to. That wouldn't be it's final home, by any means. > 2. Suspect that menu items aren't full-width in the menu, but that's an > implementation issue. They would be, and if it was up against the left hand side of the screen, you could move the mouse infinitely left and click the button. > > 3. Duplicated scroll bar controls. I convenience I find quite handy, keeps from moving the mouse too to the opposite end of the scroll bar if you just need to scroll a line up or down. > > 4. Top file viewer navigation not lining up with columns. > What's what? Also, where's its scroll bar? Just a mockup -- the actual folder elements would be appropriate to what's in the folder and would sync up with the file viewer nav. File viewer doesn't have a scroll in this design, it might later though. I'm trying to find the best balance of compactness and usability still on this one. > > 5. Taskbar not as efficient as an appicon stack along a window > corner, similar to points 1 and 2. Yep -- lots of people hate the "taskbar". Me too. It was a rough idea, but still needs to be worked out. > > 6. Not sure what the unmarked tic-tac-toe grid is for. I suspect > this and the calendar would be better as dock apps. Yep -- they are docklets. See one of the previous mails I sent to the list today about the description of all the elements. > > 7. Not clear how to resize windows... is it those little corner dots? > Yes, I know other window managers need work on that too. Yep -- the dots represent arrows in either direction, which seems more iconic than just the bar that GNUstep currently has. > > In general, I think does look like an attempt to make GNUstep a KDE or > GNOME clone rather than just a modernisation of the NeXT style. I'm > pretty concerned about the overuse of rounded corners leaving > dead space, sometimes in the worst locations. There is a lot of roundness, some will be stripped out, some will remain. The rounded edges do soften the windows and make they easier to look at. A lot of people on the list have said that they think it is in the NeXT style. I guess that's a subjective decision, though. Perhaps you could explain what defines NeXT to you, and what defines a "modern"-looking desktop to you, and I can try to implement those details. > > The brighter bluer colour scheme seems quite good, though, as does the > smooth window style. With some narrow line to show where the > "grab" areas begin and some indication of which window has input > focus, I think those could be used very well with GNUstep. I'll > try mocking them Real Soon Now if that's OK with you. Feel free -- I'd love to see others ideas! > > By the way, do you have permission to use the copyrighted firefox > trademark artwork to promote gnustep? It's not GPL, IIRC ;-) It wouldn't be in anything used for promotion -- I was just using it as a temporary icon placeholder. J. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
