- Workspace switcher -
I didn't include it into the environment sketches because it seems to
duplicate the functionality of Project concept. If you can organize
things on project that behave exactly like virtual workspace - why
do we
need it? Isn't it desirable to keep as few UI concepts as possible?
Yes. Do you feel I've (mostly) solved the Project issue?
Hmm, Jesse's mockups are almost fully reflecting my thoughts about the
environment :)
Yeah -- like I said, I think you were pretty close :)
- No titlebars thing -
I have to say I originally wanted to make my mockups exactly like you
did - without window borders. But I couldn't work out how to deal with
zooming, rulers and this kind of stuff.
Technically, the windows should probably still have resize bars at
the bottom. And if you'll look, there is a border around the chat
window.
If you don't use window borders, it means, that rulers would need
to be
system-wide on the side of screen.
No -- I think you could still have a scrollbar component that "snaps
on" to the edge of a window. You would zoom within a document, so the
ruler would be stationary.
Which would lead to quite
disorganized look. The same thing arises if you try to zoom in a text
document. If you keep document's window static, it will look like text
size changes. If a whole window would be automatically resized as you
zooming, it make it overtake the whole screen. Or there may be a
system
wide zoom. It means that even toolbars and other windows would be
zoomed
with the document. It would be very intuitive, but maybe not very
practical :)
Yeah -- system wide zoom would be hard to manage. I've thought about
it a lot too, and it becomes very confusing as to which documents you
have open or closed, and whether you're dragging the document as a
whole or just a part of it when you click and drag. The thing I
posted about "large" vs "small" movements may be a partial solution,
but unless someone can come up with something better, I think I'd
prefer to zoom into individual documents.
Hopefully, I'll have time to discuss it here so it will reflect the
shared vision within community - if there is any :-).
Ha! That's what we're figuring out now!
J.
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