this may be slightly off topic, if that's the cas, sorry...

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
[...]
> Ubuntu guys developed its netbook-launcher using Clutter, looks nice
> but relies on OpenGL. Screen shot at
> http://www.eeepc.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/unr_2.jpg   Concept is
> nice and I really think we can have a even more powerful replacement
> using EFL, that does not requires OpenGL and will be themeable using
> edje and all.
>

I really like the idea of "windows as tabs":
windows are always maximized, there is no title bar and the task bar
is looks like a tab bar.

I'm pretty sure that elementary does this "windows are always full
screen" but can you get that in e17 on a small laptop (I think in
principle is just a matter of loading a module)? Is there anything
similar to the "task-bar as a tab-bar"?

Cheers,

Emme

> My current code is based on latest Elementary (I'm changing things
> there as I need) and Evas, Ecore, Edje and EDBus. I used some code
> from E17 and also "places" module by Dave Andreolli. It still lacks a
> grid view since there is no elm_grid (raster!!!), Volume needs
> improving (eject/unmount icon) and feedback, lots of them: errors,
> launch... and also implement single instance, TODO list in order could
> be:
>
>  - grid for applications (high priority, but harder - I can hack
> something using evas tables if no elm_grid shows until I'm done)
>  - favorites menu on top-left (easy)
>  - volumes eject/unmount button (easy)
>  - discover freedesktop.org icon name given a volume and its
> properties from HAL (not hard, but needs to investigate - can also go
> into "places")
>  - launch feedback (startup-notification? maybe the same code used
> for "single instance" below?)
>  - error feedback (mount failed, launch failed - easy, use inwin or
> something like that)
>  - THEME!!! I'd like to have one like
> http://www.eeepc.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/unr_2.jpg so we can
> show we do the same, but also another fancier one.
>  - single instance
>  - automatically find file manager (try a couple or get from
> efreet/freedesktop.org and mime-type association?)
>  - monitor menu changes
>  - monitor ~/.gtk-bookmarks files
>  - exit button and dialog
>
> To really rock, I'd like to have the following:
>
>  - move each component into a plugin, load from .so and automatically
> swallow based on theme parts (gui.swallow.files -> files plugin,
> gui.swallow.user_info -> user_info plugin...)
>  - dialog to change finger-size and escale, much like Raster's
> presentation software for BossaConference
>  - change wallpaper, so we can disable ARGB window and not rely on
> composite managers.
>
> I do not promise anything concrete or reliable soon, this was the work
> I did while flying USA->Brazil and I do not have much time to work on
> it, but I'll try as I can find some interesting use cases for
> Elementary and also can fix some bugs with Efreet and EDBus.
>
> If you have patches and suggestions, let me know. I plan to add it
> under PROTO as soon as I have something bit better.
>
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