window management ideas

[Chani]

On July 14, 2009 22:41:32 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 10 July 2009, Chani wrote:
> > what I wanted is window tagging.
>
> do windows live long enough for tagging to work?

mine live for weeks. they'd live for months if I wasn't recompiling kde all 
the time. is this not common?
also, I'd like it if tagging was more automatic at some point.

>
> would there be an "always there" tag?

yeah

>
> how easy is it to tag a window? (this is an interaction design concept)

I'd hope it'd be as easy as it is to move a window to another desktop right 
now.

>
> how does tagging interact with activities? (i suppose that's answered in
> the "windowgroups / pager / ZUI" thread?)

we could have an activity associated with a tag, or maybe we could keep them 
independent...

>
> what's the average user advantage in this?

hrm. perhaps not much, given that the average user doesn't even use virtual 
desktops.

>
> how much work is saved or how much efficiency gained versus how much time
> spent messing around with tagging?

good question. I'd certainly want to keep hte messing-around time to a 
minimum.

>
>
> this feels like a very geek feature that i can't see many people using. i
> could be wrong .... but tagging really tends to work when:
>
> * the data set is large

how large? I have a couple of dozen konq tabs that I think I could manage more 
easily with tagging.

> * the data set is long lived (so value accrues over time)

I want to eventually have these tags be persistent - tagging of applications, 
documents etc.

> * the data set is shared by many people (so there's value reaped from
> other's work or by being able to tie several people's work together in
> unique ways)

yeah, we don't have this at all until we bring in document tags.

>
> because of that, tagging works _fabulously_ for things like photo sharing
> websites and online news aggregation.
>
> how well does it work for a small, often/usually temporary, non-shared data
> set?


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