> The only perhaps appropriate eye-candy metaphor would be a stack like a stack
> of tasks on your desk, but that’s exactly what you want to avoid, and is not
> easy to swipe to get to. (I assume you can do that? dunno, don’t use it)
My guess is the metaphor they’re aiming at is that of a filmstrip.
Though I haven’t used Lion yet, nor even Spaces with Leo or SL - with or
without a trackpad. What might be nifty (though of questionable actual
usability) would be to use a three-finger pinch gesture combined with a
movement *up* out of the plane of the tablet to simulate, followed by the
reverse in a different spot on the pad. The metaphor being that of pulling up
a sheet and moving over to a different area of a larger “Desktop Space”. The
main advantage of something like this would be a way to move from any Desktop
in a square array to any other - not just the ones directly vertical or
horizontal from the one you’re at.
Hardware-wise it would require the pad to have the ability to sense a
hand-presence in the third-dimension, probably in a way (electrically) similar
to how a Theramin operates - or have three or four cameras some rather
sophisticated image processing. If an effect like this were tied in with a
suitable-sophisiticated OpenGL-eye-candy.. (slight “crumpling" of the current
desktop, camera movement and zooming), this might make a reasonable 3D
interface idea. Think kine of how Taelon ships were operated in Earth: Final
Conflict.
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