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 _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list gnome-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
