I want to thank everybody for great links and answers on my
questions.
Also I would like to know what do you think about following idea:
As you know sometimes people organize shortcuts on their desktops
in the groups, like
# Internet related,
# Office related,
# Games,
# Multimedia and so on.
Do you think it will help user if those groups/areas will be
visually emphasized a little bit?
Many free software do something similar, like the tabed Xandros Asus
EEE PC ...I think there's more but I don't remember.
For example:
# Games related shortcuts will be placed in nice box with slightly
colored background
# Multimedia will be placed in another box with different color
So after some time of use user will have strong associations of
application groups with specific colors.
Yes, there are practical issues, like if I add new shortcut to
Games group and it will not fit into drawn box, but I would like not
consider them at this point.
What do you think?
-- Maxim
I don't like using the desktop as a directory or app launcher... but
most of the time I'm thinking of IxD (I study and work on design...
but it's not a type "branded as IxD") is for a new UI for an OS
(ZenSUI). I think that groups of apps should be user-configurable and
consistent (change only if the user wants a change, and portable ...ie
saving on /home/user/.config). Also this groups should behave as
Layers (there's a draft on http://www.zensui.org/IxD/Layers.html )
and the OS UI use mostly only the edge (
http://www.zensui.org/IxD/1DM.html )... I've more thoughts on this
(like windows that never are on top of others inside a Layer); but
there are too alpha/drafty.
--
http://www.zensui.org
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