[Panel-devel] Quick comment on Marc Cramdal's ALI blog

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 21 July 2005 01:02, Wade Olson wrote:
> 1) Metadata: He mentions about hovering over an application and receiving
> information about the application before launch (through Konqi/Clippy or
> otherwise). I like this idea quite a bit. Last launch, 'About' information
> (version, etc), and the same brief description that Kicker gives would be
> quite useful. Especially to new Linux users that are staring down 45 email
> client options (shame on you distros). For those minimalists, maybe an info
> toggle might appease?

the question will be WHERE to show this information. i'm not hot on a popup 
widget that obscures the interface here (check out how annoying that is in 
kalzium right now ;) 

> 2) Application Launching in general: I'd to hear people's thoughts on
> application bundles. People in different roles may consistently launch the
> same group of applications. One example would be the group that you have
> start automatically on boot-up. A developer may want KDevelop, a DB client,
> Konqeror and a code profiler to launch together. So maybe letting a user
> define a logical bundle of similar apps, and displaying those bundles for
> launch (with corresponding bundle CRUD window) could be slick on the ALI.

this goes directly hand-in-hand with the idea to create a workflow oriented 
plasma. more on that in a bit

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Aaron J. Seigo
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