Hello, As I was talking about it on #gnustep, here are few images:
First one (named 3 :) shows the whole desktop and main system-wide screen components: http://stefan.agentfarms.net/Download/GNUstep/Prototypes/Etoile/Desktop-layout-prototype-3.png there is a menu, shelf and side panel. First, the menu. The menu can be attached to screen border or detached. For that we need a standard way of dragging screen objects. I am not going to discuss the menu content here. Second the side panel. For those who were not on the #gnustep, the side panel is something known from MS Windows MDI applications where you can dock small palette/panel to the border of an application window. In the side panel one can dock any palettes, inspectors, panels. Reason is simple: screen border is very easy to find. Third is the shelf. shelf is a container for objects. One can hide it or extend it to have more visible objetcs. Shelf should not contain scroller. If I want to see more objects, I drag it farther to the screen. I do not have scollers in my drawer :) Second image: http://stefan.agentfarms.net/Download/GNUstep/Prototypes/Etoile/Desktop-layout-prototype-2.png Shows "menu shortcuts". The menu commands can be dragged and dropped into dedicated panel. The panel can be docked too. So I can D&D frequently used commands. Again, menu contents is not going to be duscussed here ;) Any thoughts or suggestions? Feel free to use those images and add your drawing into them (for example in different color so one can see changes). Regards, Stefan -- http://stefan.agentfarms.net First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi
