the next step on the desktop

Jeffery MacEachern j.maceachern at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 10:23:15 CET 2011


>> i'm trying to imagine a clever way to make it easy to go from a folder
>> returned as a search result to a folderview on the desktop. it could be
>> offered as an action on the QueryMatch, for instance, and make it easy to
>> "pin" that folder to your current activity layout instead of going through
>> the widget explorer?
>
> drag and drop is good, then a runner action as well.
> it would be nice some action/gesture whatever to transform dolphin windows
> into folderviews and back, something that looks organic... hmmm.

That's an intriguing idea. If we were to do that, what about other
application/widget pairs? The Plasmoid handle (is that the name for
it?) already has support for that sort of thing functionally, but
visuals and further conceptual binding could be *really* slick.

> Cheers,
> Marco Martin

 - Jeffery MacEachern


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