<div>There seems to be a lot of ideas floating around out there on what the future of Icons on the Desktop is going to be. I've heard the following:</div>
<div>- Have the alignment algorithms include all applets. This is now easily done with the new alignment algorithms which allow icons of any size.</div>
<div>- Have a folder view applet. I'm not exactly sure what this is supposed to do. What features are implied by such an applet.</div>
<div>- Adding device icons to the desktop. I would like to see a device dependant applet for different devices. ie. A blank CD-R will open up a "folder view" applet which allow files to be dropped and when you're done press the burn button.
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<div>- The ability to minimize Applets. This could be done with a button on the applet handle. The resulting icon could be changed dynamically by the applet depending on conditions. Examples are the weather applet could change the icon depending on updated weather conditions, etc
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<div>- Iconify applets when the view is zoomed out.</div>
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<div>What other ideas or plans are out there? My intent here is to get a general plan so that we can tell people who file bugs like this what the roadmap looks like.</div>
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<div>Chris</div>