The future of virtual desktops

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 03 March 2011, todd rme wrote:

> >> :)
> >> 
> >> I catualy think that the activities change UI should ilustrate exactly
> >> that;   the ortogonal nature of them :)
> >> we would show stacks of activities showing all their VD's
> >> the vd's would be aligned horozontaly....(small thumbnails of them)
> >> and the activities would be on the verical axis.... yes Ortogonal :D
> > 
> > For technical reasons we cannot provide (live) thumbnails for not active
> > activities. Personally I doubt you would recognize anything on the
> > thumbnails. I find it difficult to recognize the windows in desktop grid
> > and scaling everything down further does not improve the situation ;-)
> 
> Would it be possible to take a snapshot when the activity is switched off?
> 

would be, but looks a bit like a cheap hack to me

Cheers,
Marco Martin