multi-screen management

[todd rme]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Diego Moya <turingt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 08:42, Chani wrote:
>>
>> Another tricky issue: how to represent the containments? If someone can
>> get
>> thumbnails of containments working properly I will give them lots of beer
>> and
>> hugs. :) Im the meantime... well, a grid of identical icons isn't very
>> useful.
>> there probably ought to be something thing-like for the dragging... I'm
>> not
>> sure how much trouble the user will have remembering which containment
>> they
>> left where. if fact, if they drag one icon to another identical icon, what
>> is
>> there to tell them the two containments were swapped at all?
>
> For want of a (thumb)nail... you could identify containments by showing the
> list of icons of the widgets included in it. A containment would be uniquely
> identified by the list of elements it contains.

What happens if two different containments have the same widgets in
different layouts?  Or even the same widgets in the same layout but
with different settings?

 I don't think this is implausible if, for instance, people make
different activities for similar projects, they might want a different
set of contacts or a different folder in folderview but if the general
needs of the project are the same the layout of the activity would
probably stay the same as well.  The new activity manager makes it
easy to clone activities, so I expect in certain use-cases this will
not be uncommon.

-Todd