the next step on the desktop

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 31 January 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday, January 30, 2011, todd rme wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > > * a new panel layout (TBD: let's work on this together!)
> > > * improve the tasks widget to have some of the nice features of widgets
> > > like "smooth tasks" with the mouse over highlights
> > 
> > Some other possible improvements:
> > - Application control interfaces moved from the system tray to the
> > task manager (I recall you mentioning this before).
> 
> yes.
> 
> > - More focus on thumbnails.  For instance smooth tasks lets you close
> > applications from the thumbnails.  There should also be prettier ways
> > to deal with groups with large numbers members
> 
> a scrolling area could work, but would require some cooperation with the
> kwin effect for this i believe.

yes, i think what's missing is clipping thumbnails when half scrolled away

> > - I think it would be nice if applications had some way to extend the
> > thumbnail display.  For instance put buttons on it, or have a pop-up
> > button to show extra thumbnails (such as thumbnails of tabs you can
> > select).  This may not be feasible using existing desktop standards,
> > though.
> 
> probably not, but that shouldn't stop us ... status notifiers might be a
> good first step.

yup, indeed, i did put the win id info in the spec for something eheh ;)

> > > * an "activities" widget (i'll hapilly write it) that sits next to the
> > > app launcher and when clicked brings up the actvities manager
> > 
> > You mean like this:
> > http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Activity+Manager+Plasmoid?content=13
> > 62 78
> 
> no; more just a shortcut to the activity manager. the reason for that can
> be plainly seen in the screenshots in that link: when you try to put
> activities in a small UI like that, you _innevitably_ get people wanting
> to
> stop/start/delete/create/configure them there too and it becomes a visual
> and usability mess.
> 
> not that the current activity manager is awesome, but it does at least give
> enough space to reasonably work with activities. the activity manager ought
> to be rewritten in QML and spiffied up.

yep, i'll start a branch asap (i have a qml file that basically replicates the 
current uoi and is uhm.. ~50 lines ;)


Cheers,
Marco Martin