Well, if you know squeak, there's something very neat regarding how
it handles projects; each project is contained into a window, when
you click one it zoom in to fill the entire screen. Quite cool.
Each project thus got the full screen and you can have any
applications running inside. We could perhaps try something like that
?
That's exactly what I was thinking of!
I'm actually working on a Flash mockup right now!
Flashy fun is available here:
http://jesseross.com/clients/etoile/ui/project_based/01/
I still need to add a bunch of stuff -- you can't launch and view
documents yet, or make annotations, but this is kind of what I'm
thinking of. Ignore how poorly the '+' buttons work according to Fitt's
Law -- it would be much better thought out in the actual
implementation.
Oh, something else that's not present -- I think we would need some
type of task bar or something which would hold info that should be
accessible no matter what project you're working in, such as a clock, a
music player, etc, etc. I don't know where this would go yet, but keep
in mind that it would be ever present.
J.
