On 10/02/2008, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mockups, eh? Well, here are a few to look at. > Firstly, I have indeed been very very slowly poking at the application > switcher thought as a panel applet. Not really anywhere far yet, but this > discussion got me opening up the project again. I guess that's a step in the > right direction... > > I am toying with a button-looking container with some toggle buttons within > for each process. The one you see here is really just an ugly hack (and a > mockup, obviously), but it shows the idea: > http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2454/screenshotmainpyoq9.png > The icon on the left is for the process, while the other two text labels > are its open windows. Icons for individual windows are sadly not > happening... something creative will have to be done. > > Robin.com.au's very clever mockup is what got me going on this precise > tangent: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320315
I hate to be a party killer, but unless you guys are prepared to follow this up with code (GObjects in C, not an interpreted language), then there is a snowman's chance in hell of this ever becoming real[1]. There is unfortunately no such thing as "idle developers", who just happen to have a lot of spare time and no project to hack on. On top of the development there is also the politics involved - consider the case of Novells main menu. Novell put a *lot* of work here with many seasoned developers, and it is still not included in Gnome. Getting Gnome main inclusion for such a core piece of the desktop is essential. Ubuntu can not maintain such a piece of software without it being "in the loop". Cheers, Mikkel [1]: This applies to basically all circulated ideas popping up on this mailing list. > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Laignel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Álvaro Medina Ballester wrote: > > > If Ubuntu is going to lead GNU/Linux revolution, let's start thinking > > > some things, lets make some specifications, let's design a new gui for > > > gnome and let's help gnome's team to develop it! > > > > > > > > > I'm glad to know that there are a lot of people interested in this :) > > > > > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > I'll try to reply to the rest tomorrow - gotta go to bed now. I totally > > agree though and have been thinking about a similar idea for a few > > months now. Basically design a mockup system of the ultimate desired > > system, complete with menus, software and detailed documentation on > > behaviour, and more importantly, reasons for this behaviour. > > > > It seems quite a lot of developers use a closed source version as a > > reference when creating a FOSS version. I believe that the open source > > community would benefit massively from a 'virtual distro' which could > > appeal to the creative types normally excluded from the development > > process and provide a bridge between usability and code. It would also > > apply the 'many eyes' theory to UI design and provide an alternate place > > for developers to get ideas from. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-art mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
