Re: User interface suggestions

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Pasi Pärnänen wrote:

> I would like a icon-only menu with an array of icons that i could arrange 
> myself. A sort of program palette with a changable size in multiplies of the 
> icon size, perhaps. It could be a bit like a drawer, only 2D instead of 1D, 
> and with no shrink-wrap effect... (I mean that in order to have groups of things
 > there also has to be distance between them. The drawers don't have
that.)

Sounds a bit like the Microsoft Office sidebar... which I have to say I
use all the time on Windows, even though I never actually use Microsoft
Office!

Cheeri,
Calum.

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