Heya, I think this is an interesting idea, but I think it is best placed in a gDesklet. This is because of a few reasons:
- using the command line is really something that GNOME should be trying to move Linux users away from. If you are bored one day, try and do *everything* with the GUI. You will often find holes in the GUI where you could quickly run a command to do something. It is these holes where GNOME should try and concentrate. - saying that, I understand that many people (including me) still like to use the command line, and running it on the background seems perfectly (albeit flawed in usability terms* fine). Running a gDesklet would solve this problem. >From an implementation angle, I am not the best person to discuss this, but creating a gDesklet would help quite a lot. The problem would of course be focus, and gDesklets are typically useful for visualisation. One solution could be to have a dashboard type application that appears over the desktop when you hit a key (such as F12 in Mac OS X). Hope this may be useful. Jono *these terms are largely to do with visibility. The background is intended as a place in which applications are placed upon. If you run an application in the background itself, it lacks visibility and confuses the cultural and in-head-knowledge of the desktop metaphor. So its tough to get at all the time, and breaks the context. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
