Le 16 mars 06 à 19:09, Nicolas Roard a écrit :
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)
Exactly.
That looks very similar to what I had in mind when I was talking
about a Worktable view (which would complement icon, list views)
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 )
The links are currently broken.
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... ;-)
:-)
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.. ?..
That's what the stack metaphor and mechanism provides in fact (mini
exposé for documents in lowfat, photos in Aperture case)
The important point is to support such feature at folder/project/
document level in order it scales and doesn't add yet another layer
of organization/interaction over the main one (hierarchical folder/
project).
This interaction semantic also reminds me and overlaps a little bit
with Banlu's "nodal browser" concept : <http://
maliwan.sourceforge.net/filebrowser.png>
I really like this idea I admit :-)
Quentin.
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Quentin Mathé
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