> > At the Zeitgeist hackfest we designed a bar which pops down at the top of > the screen and shows recent documents. [1] Assuming that I understand the > concept of activities, that bat could serve (with a few modifications) as a > replacement for the window list. Here's how it would work: > 1. Instead of showing all recent documents, the bar would show recent > documents which are related to the currently open documents. For example, if > I have a pdf file open then the bar would show all of the other reference > papers whether they're still open or not. > > 2. Each activity could show it's own bar. > > 3. The bar could be hidden by default or it could have a minimized view - > something like the windowlist - that would show the documents. (Again, even > if they're not open.) > > 4. When I use the term "Documents" that doesn't need to refer only to > documents. When applicable, an application or even a window could be > considered a document. > > For example, most games don't open any documents so we can just show the > game as a document-like item. (Which can form part of an activity.) > > It might also make sense to show each Firefox window as one document so > that the list of documents doesn't get overfilled with each tab that the > user has open in Firefox. (If people learn to group related tabs into one > Firefox window then that could work very well.) > > 5. In Zeitgeist, a document doesn't need to refer to a file on your > computer. For example, it can also refer to tomboy notes and websites. In > the future, we're going to even include Google Documents, Flickr pictures, > and Delicious Bookmarks in our document database. All of these can appear in > the same documents bar taking activities (collections of related documents, > if I understand correctly) to a whole new level of usability. > > A few caveats: > 1. Zeitgeist's support for determining which documents are relevant to one > another is still experimental and hasn't yet had a stable release. > > 2. We figure out which documents relate to one another (in the shell's > terminology: which documents form an activity) based on their usage. (E.g. > was one document opened while another document was open? Did the user switch > often between one document and the other?) This means that there's no way of > immediately telling what activity a new document belongs to when it's opened > for the first time. To solve this, we can show the document in all of > activity bars until we can determine which one it belongs in. >
Idea, I love you, and I want to have your babies. (That means OMG I LOVE THAT IDEA!) -- Sam Illingworth Sent from Poplar, Eng, United Kingdom
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