Re: Next Generation Desktop UI

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

A Dom, 2004-04-04 às 15:53, Jürg Billeter escreveu:
> Hi
> 
> I've given some thoughts to the question how the GNOME desktop may look
> resp. behave like some time ahead.
> 
> http://www.bitron.ch/software/ng-desktop.html
> 
> Feel free to comment!

  Regarding the "enlarging icons on hovering" thing, I think it's a very
good idea, but ahead of our time.  GnomeCanvas[1] is too slow for this. 
I already hate the selection rectangle of nautilus.  It looks great, but
is terribly slow even in a fast computer.  A simple rubber-banding with
XOR-drawing lines would be 100x better (more usable) than this.

  Before adding eye candy like that, we should wait for a
hardware-accelerated, Cairo-based canvas, IMHO.

[1] I know, it's not GnomeCanvas, I just don't remember the name of the
Nautilus canvas, but both are equally slow.

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Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
The universe is always one step beyond logic.