<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 August 2011 11:38, Andreas Demmer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@andreas-demmer.de">mail@andreas-demmer.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Aaron J. Seigo wrote:<br>
> in Share Like Connect, you can select the Connect button, select Activity<br>
> and the activity you want [...]<br>
> i don't know if it's fast enough<br>
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Sounds consitant for things that should be always connected with eath other<br>
but I could imagine that for "quick corrections" (like chat windows opening on<br>
the wrong activity), even this would get in the way.<br>
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I recieved the following suggestion from Lukas<br>
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> The best idea so far was to employ corner actions. When you hit top left<br>
> corner with your mouse, you get "Now Open Windows grid" (something like<br>
> expose in mac).<br>
><br>
> When you hit the same corner when dragging the window, why not to have same<br>
> with activities? So you can simply drag window to any activity in the<br>
> activity preview grid (something like zoom out in earlier KDE versions) in<br>
> less than 2-3 seconds with a single click :) Also Activites plasmoid in<br>
> panel can be removed - important for the tablets/notebooks<br>
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I like the idea of a simple drag'n'drop from windows corner and could think of<br>
this really being an enjoyable workflow.<br></blockquote><div><br>Hi,<br><br>Its a quick visualization (with couple extensions :) ) of what I wrote to Andreas<br><a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1S5M8LkIz0j6s_caT3T_nDUxMWmUs3p8qkQmMD0K_hWo/edit?hl=en_US">https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1S5M8LkIz0j6s_caT3T_nDUxMWmUs3p8qkQmMD0K_hWo/edit?hl=en_US</a><br>
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Yet, I see some issues needs to be solved with this workflow:<br>
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1. How making it obvious to the user that the opening grid are now activities<br>
instead of virtual desktops? We need to avoid any confusion.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Always have the same UI with activities and windows.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
2. How to handle many activities? Should we really show an activity grid which<br>
would become rather small for each activity when having more than 4-9<br>
activities.<br></blockquote><div><br>And open windows too ;)<br><br>To gain more space something like <a href="http://valums.com/files/2009/vertical-menu/final.htm">http://valums.com/files/2009/vertical-menu/final.htm</a> can be done. <br>
<br>It means - when moving a mouse, canvas moves/scrolls to reverse direction. In contrast to Valums solution, the items on the edges shall not get hidden, but made smaller. Something like rotating a globe - area with focus is the biggest, others nicely fits it. Or KWins fish eye lens effect.<br>
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Still, I like the idea of this grid even if it means that this would be<br>
largely implemented as KWin effect. Oh yeah, I can imagine Martin smiling now<br>
and thinking "hehe, I told him KWin would be his fate" :D<br><br></blockquote><div><br>If you have any questions - it might be faster to add them inline on the drawing, there they can be discussed individually.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Lukas <br> <br> </div></div>