Task-Centric file creation - First mockups

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 31 January 2013, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > Cheers,
> > Thomas
> 
> This is very interesting.  I don't have much feedback but I just want to
> raise one issue that creating new stuff (documents in my case) need to
> take into account: templates.  Sometimes you want to create a new
> completely empty document. Sometimes you want to create something from an
> existing template.
> 
> Sometimes you even want to create a new document from an old one but that
> is another matter. Just don't forget templates when you design the
> interaction.

(implementation detail, but that's how i think :p) a thing that it occurs to 
me is that applications could define services in some common format, (ie, i 
know how to send emails, i know how to edit contacts etc) with a way to 
achieve that, that may be a command, a dbus api, whatever. In this case is 
also possible for third parties to change defaults of who does what action.

so, the task menu would expose that action, and invoke it, without knowing 
anything how is done.
for creation of files, it may either be some small, global interface for 
creation derived from some preinstalled template, or in case is something more 
complex, the application (would think about say, krita) registers itself a 
"create new drawing" action, that would just be in the end, behind the scenes 
an invokation of krita with the right commandline to show an internal file 
creation ui, that would follow some ui guidelines, so is not much relevant to 
the user that what happened is krita that had been launched instead of some 
stock thing.

Cheers,
Marco Martin