So... lots of interface ideas flying back and forth around the list
and SILC channel lately. ;)
I started doing some mockups of some of these ideas, which you can
check out here:
http://jesseross.com/clients/etoile/ui/concepts/01/workspace_100.jpg
http://jesseross.com/clients/etoile/ui/concepts/01/workspace_200.jpg
http://jesseross.com/clients/etoile/ui/concepts/01/workspace_300.jpg
http://jesseross.com/clients/etoile/ui/concepts/01/workspace_400.jpg
A lot of this stuff hasn't been agreed upon by everyone, but it helps
to incite discussion by seeing it in a somewhat realistic form.
Here's what the above are:
100 is a view of a desktop with a single project on it. This project
has been minimized.
200 is a view of that same project zoomed in. I haven't determined
how to indicate where you currently are in the hierarchy of projects,
if that's even necessary. I also haven't decided how to zoom back out
of the project (perhaps double-clicking on the desktop...?). Some
additional things you can see from this mockup:
- Person icons, with status indicators (differentiated by both
color and shape)
- No titlebars. The idea behind this is that we would use a
modifier key to indicate small vs large movements on active
documents. Small movements are things done _within_ active documents
and large movements are things done _to_ active documents as a whole.
So, for example, to open a non-active (minimized) document, one could
just double click on it (no modifier key necessary as this is on a
non-active document). Once it is opened, in order to move it around,
one holds down the modifier key and drags it around (large movement).
To minimize the window, one holds down the modifier key and double
clicks (large movement). I've just started getting some of this into
Flash -- all you can do is use Alt to switch between the modes and
move the windows while in "Large" mode: http://jesseross.com/clients/
etoile/ui/concepts/01/etoile.html . I still need to add in the
minimizing code.
- Not all files have file names. Creating a new file does just that
-- it makes a blank document in some predefined, user-customizable
size. As such, you don't need to necessarily name the document. This
is handy for things like photos that are more readily identifiable
based on looking at a thumbnail. Some documents, like code, may
require a file name in order to compile. This would be set in the
Settings... menu option, as seen in the next image.
300 is a sample menu window opened -- this is all subject to change.
400 is a different interpretation of the Shelf. This is something
that Nicolas and David and I discussed yesterday. It's kind of a
cross between the OS X Dashboard and the pasteboard, and how we had
intended to use the shelf-within-the-panel. The Shelf is a place to
store things temporarily. When you Pick something, this is where you
can Drop it. The advantage over the panelized-shelf is that it's not
crowding the screen, and it's 2 dimensional and spatial.
One other thing to notice about these is that there is no Panel
representation. I'm still personally a bit uncertain as to how we
might use it, other than perhaps as a launcher for shortcuts to
Projects... (once we consider that we are removing the concept of
applications).
I still need to work on a component mockup, which will probably look
similar to Michal's, as I like the way he implemented it using a
palette/dialog. My version may look a bit more "GORM-ish". There are
plenty of other things, too, like annotations and Send to... and
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J.
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