On 5/11/05, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have spent some time with Tiger now, and Dashboard is still odd. > For one thing, it adds a mode to the UI, which is not good - > especially since it is very easy to forget that it exists when it is > not active. > One thing that makes it a lot more useful is adding a default which > puts it in testing mode. In this mode, you can drag dashboard > widgets between the dashboard and the main desktop. In this way, the > dashboard is just a slightly out-of-the-way storage space. Since the > space is the size of the screen, you can fit a lot on it, which is nice. > How does this relate to Étoilé? Because I think Dashboard is an > excellent prototype of how a shelf should work. I start dragging > something, and hit F12 (in the corner of my keyboard, easy to hit), > and the shelf appears (full screen). I release the mouse button, and > the item is dropped on the shelf. I drag things off by doing exactly > the same in reverse. Dashboard only allows widgets to be dragged to > the shelf, but in Étoilé, every kind of (UI) object should be > storable in this way. By using the entire screen as a shelf, we get > a fully spacial storage space, which is much nicer than the small > grid-arranged NeXT shelf. > > Thoughts?
That's an interesting idea ... I would say, we should have both -- keep a tabbed shelf on the bottom, but have a key to put the shelf on the front and "fullscreen". -- Nicolas Roard "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
