On 26 Apr 2005, at 15:46, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
Having a projects navigator is necessary. Well, having good navigator.
But what
is good navigator? What should such navigator contain and provide?
Agreed.
How it should look like?
#1 windows/gnome/kde taskbar where group != application, but group =
project?
I've never found these to work particularly well with applications, so
I don't really see them working with projects.
#2 virtual desktops switcher?
Then there becomes very little difference with just using virtual
desktops.
#3 "layers panel" in photoshop/gimp where one selects visible layers
and selects
'pencil' to mark the layer "editable"?
I very much like this idea. This would allow a layer (or several
layers) to be assigned to `applications' that don't belong in a
particular project (e.g. email, IM, system information viewers, stock
tickers or whatever), in a way similar to Dashboard, which could be
turned on and off at will. My problem with Dashboard is that the
widgets are either on (and everything else is unavailable) or off -
this would be a nice compromise. It would also allow projects to
contain overlaps nicely, if the top-level projects contained
sub-projects which could be shared.
#4 sheets in an excel file?
Yuck.
Btw. considering the virtual desktops - it is a very thin ice, as many
users may
fall into everything-in-one desktop usage. therefore, what shuold the
project
manager provide so the users will use it and will not go to the
single-desktop/single-project usage?
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with a user putting everything in a
single desktop / project. The idea is to provide tools that can be
used to make the users' lives easier, not to enforce a particular
behaviour.
