> I go by the name "Narcoleptic Electron", and wear this mask and
> spandex, so that my mild-mannered secret identity can go unknown and
> unattributed.  Innovation for innovation's sake, my friends!  The
> promise of fame can only corrupt.

I would call it security by obfuscation. ;)

> Iconified is like "closed": the contents of the window are not visible
> -- only some sort of icon representing the window.  In order to "open"
> it again, security credentials would need to be provided.  It could
> not be a thumbnail, as that would reveal potentially secure
> information within the window.

I think that something like that would be good for content you have to
log-in to. I wouldn't use it for content you have full access to though (a
miniature gives far more information for attempting to identify the file).

> Each workspace is a scroll view, containing windows.  "Squishing" the
> contents of the workspace causes the contents of the scroll view to be
> compressed such that they are all visible in the workspace window
> without scrolling.  The workspace window stays the same size.  At this
> point, clicking a compressed window within the workspace causes the
> workspace contents to become "unsquished" again, and it automatically
> scrolls to the window that you clicked.

Okay -- the term "scroll" confused me in this context. So, would it behave
more like a zoomable interface (where the other documents retain their
proportional distance from the clicked document), or do the other windows
fall behind and stack (like Expose)? Am I assuming correctly that it's the
former, and that to get to another document the user would scroll
up/down/left/right?

> Thanks.  I'll try to write up a proper article about my ideas and put
> it somewhere.

Good deal.

>> Talk to Quentin or Nicolas (do you have admin rights?) about getting
>> wiki
>> access and start posting your ideas in the appropriate spots.
>
> Right on.  No admin rights yet (this is my first post to Étoilé, I think).

Sorry -- that was a question for Nicolas (I should have directed that
better).


J.





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