[Panel-devel] Open for ideas?

[Sven Burmeister]

Hello!

Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2005 16:42 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Friday 22 July 2005 03:44, Werner wrote:
> > I have been reading about the Plasma project again over the last few
> > days, and when I saw it on slashdot today, it made me think about quite
> > a few possible desktop enhancements. Basically, what I would like to
> > know, is if the project is still interested in ideas to enhance a user's
> > KDE desktop experience. If so, would this be the right place to discuss
> > such ideas, or to brainstorm about KDE desktop enhancements?
>
> it is.

I think that plasmoids replacing the "recent documents" and "recently used 
apps" would be very useful. They should display those items on the desktop 
with the possibility to make some of the entries stick.

The KMenu could be replaced by some zooming plasmoid. The plasmoid would be 
placed on some part of the desktop, e.g. vertically on the left and just 
display icons. If the user points to it, it reveals the lables to the icons, 
i.e. Multimedia, System, Office etc. The user would point the mouse to the 
office icon. The plasmoid then zoomes into the category, displaying the tasks 
available, e.g. "create text-document", "create spread-sheet", "read/write 
email" etc. If there is more than one application available for a certain 
task, pointing at it would zoom into it and display the application icons. 
This is based on the idea that once the user has chosen a category, such as 
office, multimedia or system, s/hes looks for a task, rather than an 
application.

All this can be done with just icons, or icons plus label/description.

Multimedia would offer tasks such as "Burn CD", "Play Video" or "Play Music".

Another thing I think is quite useful, at least for people who sometimes copy 
files to their desktop, is to mark the icons with a certain background-colour 
till they are clicked on/found the first time.

Sven