Hello there, I've been playing around a bit on the idea of a dashboard (using PyQt4). It doesn't look like much, but the bases have been laid. If you have any comment or suggestion, please let me know.
Here's a screen-cast of the dashboard so far: http://videobin.org/+51n/5fl.html Greetings, B. On 12 August 2011 19:56, Benjamin Trias <jesuisbenja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 August 2011 17:36, Benjamin Trias <jesuisbenja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Steven, > > > > Thanks for your interest. > > > > The idea consists of a dashboard providing the kind of advanced > information you need about your computer, music, communication, weather, > home, rss etc. The entire dashboard is hidden below the desktop as it were, > only to show the topmost part, living just a thin edge, much like the > current-gnome panel. When hitting a button/icon on the panel however, the > dashboard rises showing the related information. eg. my weather icon shows > 23°C, but i want details, so when clicking on it, the dashboard rises and i > see the weather for the entire week, radar-map etc. You can imagine how that > applies to other types of information. > > Each type of info is contained within a window on the dashboard. You can > switch window much like tabs, thanks to a menu which can appear either on > the left or right (the menu consists of a list of those types of > information). > > You can also pin some of those windows to see multiple kind of > information simultaneously. A pinned window will also show whenever the > dashboard would rise again. > > Explicitly closing the dashboard by clicking on an button or cliking > outside of the dashboard would lower the dashboard again, leaving only the > topmost panel-like bit visible. > > The space occupied by the dashboard would depend on the amount of data to > display or be constrained to a maximum by the end-user. > > Notifications could also appear either as a horizontally scrolling text > on the panel-bit or as a slight rise of this dashboard with text to display. > > > > The point of this is to make all the handy information that most people > use daily available on the desktop, without having them fetching it from > various programs or browsers. The switch between panel and dashboard is aims > at providing flexibility between basic information and thorough information. > > > > I've got some mockup available but i don't know if this message will go > through with a URL: > > > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TYTjs94NaQrsMPlLgAcQvIrypTNYvS81JK5a63XKS2o?feat=directlink > > > > I'm not that good in programming, it took me a while only to figure out > how to reserve space on the screen, I haven't figured out what's the best > way to get the raising/lowering of the window yet. I know it's way above my > league, and it's a pretty clumsy approach, but that's what I've got. > > > > I hope I was somehow clear on what I meant. > > > > Regards, > > Benjamin > > > > On 11 August 2011 17:14, Steven Yong <woong...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> What is your idea? > >> > >> On Aug 11, 2011 10:18 PM, "Benjamin Trias" <jesuisbenja...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > > > > > I have reloaded the mock-up, the former link is dead. If you are > interested you can see it at: > > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/QZ4IP3TOrCVtq86gdARkForypTNYvS81JK5a63XKS2o?feat=directlink > > Cheers, > Benjamin >
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