On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 02:30 +0300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > ... > > random thoughts from my mind > > > > Totem is a video player, and can be made spatial > > - remember window position, time, state ( play/pause...) . > > None of those are anything to do with a spatial interface; they're just > good manners. (Except the part about automatically resuming playback, It would be preferable to remember time in a video file, as i often have tons of video tutorial which i watch in bits and pieces as i often have to cross-reference.
totem to my current knowledge use a single window for all video, hence i end up using mplayer + totem combo. /me i might be unique in this regard. > which is probably inappropriate if Totem starts when you log in.) gnome has a option for save session , which should be a good fit for this. > > A spatial interface is about finding things based on where they are. > Having items stay where you left them is an important part of this, but > only one part. Another is having each item appear only in one place, > unless obviously advertised as a shortcut (for example, search folders > should look very different from normal folders). Another is for > different objects to look different from each other (for example, > different documents should not have the same icon). Another is for the I tend to use different emblems, for certain documents and folder. Changing the icon confuses me a bit, about the document type. > number of things you are navigating to be small enough or the display > to be sophisticated enough (which is why spatial interfaces are popular > in VR worlds, and why a spatial interface is good for folders with few > items but poor for large things like music collections). Agreed, certain application work better without spatial metaphor clutter. > > So whether a spatial interface is appropriate depends on the > application. An interesting juxtaposition of the two is in Aperture, > which uses a non-spatial interface for a photographer's overall > library, and a spatial interface for groups of photos. > <http://urlx.org/apple.com/20b5d> > > > Image viewer can have a spatial mode ( a gconf key ? to remember this ) > > What would that do? > > > Documents viewer ( pdf ) can remember there setting per document basis. > > > > Text editor - already have an example. > > > > Additionally, we can associate an application to a particular document > > only ( not document type ) > > ... > > Those should happen anyway, and they aren't really anything to do with > a spatial interface either. rather than each application having a spatial mode option, why not use a common setting in gconf "/desktop/gnome/interface/spatial" > > Cheers -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
