On 3/16/06, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A really nice approach to file management, similar to some of the things we > had > talked about with the Project-based desktop. > > http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=18 > > I'm not sure whether he's releasing this as open source, but he is doing all > his > development on Linux, and has proof-of-concepts running on OS X and XP as > well.
Yes I saw the video. Looks interesting, somehow related to Apple's Aperture "luminous table" efforts.. (although of course it could be extended to something else than photos) I also played yesterday with the eComStation live cd, following an osnews comment that was saying OS/2 had something a bit similar to how we want to implement our folders/projects http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13974&comment_id=104657 (chek that too: http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13974&comment_id=104367 ) Basically, you can go into a folder info panel, tick "work", and then if you have any documents opened from that folder, if you close the folder it also close the documents. More interestingly, if you re-open the folder, the documents are re-opened too. Though, it's quite simple -- eg the documents windows' positions aren't saved. It's rather similar to how we want to implement "projects" in étoilé (at least for the first steps). Guess there's nothing new under the sun... ;-) Of course, we want it to be more spatial, ie, save the documents/windows position as well, so you can really find the same work space as the one you left. And we also want an option to "push" the folder window as the desktop background, and possibly do that in a virtual workspace. But it's interesting that our idea is rather similar to what OS/2 did. In addition to those behaviors (and which is why I answer to the lowfat post) we want a quite "spatial" view. Eg, we want to have different kind of views for a folder : list, icons, etc. And one of this should be a spatial view, where you can put your icons as you want, and where you can also add things like text, images, arrows, etc., to better organize that space. Seeing Aperture's and lowfat's videos, or exposé, I'm thinking that perhaps we could also have a kind of "mini-exposé" at the window's level too, to manipulate files easily.. ?.. -- Nicolas Roard "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
