Plasma-Netbook Mockups

[Marco Martin]

On 4/9/10, Markus <kamikazow at web.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag 09 April 2010 23:10:48 schrieb Chani:
>
>
>  > while I can see this being handy for something like Qt Designer, it'd be a
>  > PITA for something like a web browser or okular.
>
>
> Web browsers and Okular are single-window apps by design. Sure, you can show
>  more than one window at the same time, but usually those do not need to be
>  shown at the same time.
>  So with only a single document being displayed and the netbook GUI defaulting
>  to fullscreen app execution anyway, in those cases the Minimize button and the
>  Hide menu do the same thing: Hide the current window and showing the Newspaper
>  activity.
>  I don't know about Qt Designer -- I was more thinking about GIMP and such.
>  In some cases websites spawn small popup windows, often resulting in
>  interaction with the smaller windows having effects on the main window (eg. a
>  web forum opens a new login window). Both in this case and GIMP-like apps, the
>  smaller windows are clearly connected to.
>

luckily those kind of applications are tthe exception, i can only
think about gimp and qt designer (there is also koppete, but works
quite good anyways with maximized windows)
gimp will shortly change to a single window layout anyways.
and keep in  mind, that this shell was ddsigned from day zero for
"content consuming" complex creation workflows like using ggraphics
applications are explicitly not supported, a catch-all use shell
already exists, and is plasma-desktop

Cheers,
Marco Martin