On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 19:21, Luis Villa wrote: > Hey, dudes- > > late night brainstorming led me to a question- in a hypothetical > document-centric/app-hiding desktop, how does one initiate actions that > are not document-centric? i.e., if evolution-as-app goes away, how do I > initiate the action of sending a mail? [For that matter, how does one > create a new document?] I had some thoughts about this a while ago, put them in a mockup and dumped it in the sshots dir :-) http://esco.mine.nu/sshots/open_save_mockups.jpg Specifically, the semi-obscured "New Document..." dialog. The idea is that you select the basic type of document in the list, then the exact type in the optionmenu. So in that dialog, you'd select "Plain Text Document" from the list and hit "Create". It's not totally document-centric, but it's a definate step forward :-), IMHO. I think the above could go reasonably nice with a Panel "Documents" menu (between Applications and Actions currently), with some items: New... Open... Browse... Find... ----- Recent #1 Recent #2 [...] Non-document Applications could be moved to a "Tasks" menu: Internet > Browse the Web Chat on IRC Read E-Mail Programming > Read Documentation Develop Application System > New Terminal Report a Bug Browse Home Directory Browse Network Locations Read Help or something similar, with a resultant panel menu setup: [**Documents** Tasks Actions ...] | New... | | Open... | | Browse... | | ------------ | | Recent #1 | | Recent #2 | +--------------+ AFACT, doing this would require an "Action-Name" field in .desktop, and some extensions to how apps register themselves to gnome-vfs, but otherwise it shouldn't be that hard to do... What something like this really needs is user testing though. -- Peace, Jim Cape http://ignore-your.tv "It is literally true that, like Christianity, Socialism has conquered the world by defeating itself." -- Alexander Berkman, ABC of Anarchism
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