I'd love to try it out unfortunately https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468860
is preventing me from doing so :/ /me wonders how these kinds of bugs will effect the proposed GNOME shell technologies? BR, K On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 23:57 +1300, Matthew McGowan wrote: > Hello gnome desktop developers, > > Apologies if this is the wrong forum for such an email. > > I have seen a fair bit of discussion about usability ideas for Gnome 3. > Going by a post on planet.gnome.org, the current thinking as far as > desktop interaction[1] seems to involve some kind of multi-functional > left-sided panel. > > Inspired by recent discussions and a few other applications such as > Opera and Adobe Acrobat 8, i decided to have a go at developing some of > my own ideas and add them to the mix. I used Clutter and python to do > so as these tools offer a relatively easy way of layering images and > cairo textures whilst at the same time Clutter allowed me to provide > some degree of interactivity (which further demonstrates ideas). > > You can get my main menu mockup/prototype from here: > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/123544/main-menu-mockup.tar.gz > > To run my mockup you need clutter 0.8 and pyclutter installed. > > My main menu mockup, i believe, offers more functionality than existing > main menus... though i guess it is similar to the Novells Slab menu and > Vista's Start menu(?). It would provide a single location for browsing > applications, friends/contacts, places, deskbar-like search, document > history, logout options and system preferences & administration. > > I believe many users would be somewhat familiar with the paradigm i > offer as there are precedents in the software world, Adobe Acrobat 8, > Opera, Slab, and Vista start menu and the likes of web browsers and > Banshee which implement similar UI ideas (with regard to panel-type > interfaces which expose application functionality). > > I am no coder and i don't really know how buggy/attractive the code is, > it runs fine on my Ubuntu 8.10 system... the main threat is missing > icons, but i think it should handle the absence of icons gracefully... > > Hopefully some of you will look at my mockup and provide some feedback > or maybe develop some of the ideas. > > > Regards, > Matthew McGowan > > _____________________ > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list