[KDE Usability] Re: Display Management Design

[todd rme]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Something like this? Looks a bit off, but might be someone else could figure
> what exactly :)
>
> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1A7bdmsLBE_oeRZPHxZNMBVAxMQZCkQIclWOrd2mRLGs/edit?hl=en_US

Close.  A few things:

I would move the list of activities to the top right, using a drop-down list.

> For the controls (rotate, re size, arrow), are they displayed on mouse over
> or always?

Always.  Because of how other interfaces work on past experience,
users are unlikely to try to interact with the screens unless they
have some clear indicitation that they should

> Also how would this layout perform using clone mode? One display would be
> below and unelectable. Unless then overlapping, some popup could came up and
> let user to select display in the background.

If they are different sizes, the smaller one would be on top always.
Otherwise it would probably show as a "clone display" rather than
showing the individual displays.

> Does anyone use Gimp/photoshop/Inkscape/etc? How does image editors deals
> with layers behind?

Usually they are not identical in size and shape.

-Todd