On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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!) > > Thank you, I guess. :) -Natan
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