How hard would it be for us to implement, or for you to implement? Joshua, do you have a branch with the borrowed results window? Or was that just a mockup?
David On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Matthew Nicholson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes! This is exactly what my 2nd Mockup would have been, great job!. I agree > that the whole dock moving up night not be the cleanest way to do things, > and I also agree on the focus being on the "top" of the list. > > Now, how hard would this be to implement? A rough first version, of course. > I mean, the results window code is already there...could it simply be > integrated? > > > Matthew Nicholson > [email protected] > Harvard University > FAS IT Research Computing > Dept. Of Earth and Planetary Science > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Joshua Blount <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Matthew Nicholson wrote: >> > basically, the whole "dock" would slide upwards, so that its stays teh >> > same width, but is about teh same height as the "normal" results >> > window. In that new space the results would get shown. I'm sure, to >> > start at least, this could literally be identical to the current >> > results window... >> >> My suggestion would be to keep the dock where it is (while the user >> initiates the list), I'm assuming at least some users have the list of >> results showing all the time (assuming this because it is a preference, >> so someone must be using it :)) and the dock moving every time the user >> is inputting text would decrease the current aesthetic of Docky (IMHO). >> >> I've attached a simple screenshot hacking the existing list view from >> 'glass' onto Docky. While I'm not happy with the colors, I think the >> placement is quite good, a few notes: >> >> 1. I've moved the "1 of 78" over to the left to allow the hovered on >> icon at the bottom to be large and overlap the list >> >> 2. Notice that when the user initiates the list (↓ at the moment) the >> list starts with the top most thing highlighted. I think this would be >> the best case scenario, even though the list doesn't actually appear >> down, because this will allow the user to hit ↓ once to see the list, >> then keep hitting ↓ to get to newer results, increasing learnability >> (once they know how to open the list) >> >> 3. The colors are wrong, I think the list looks fine, but that the dock >> interface would be better served with a glossy-ish black background. I'm >> happy to make a mockup of this, but wanted to publish my ideas first and >> see if anyone as interested. >> >> -- >> Joshua Blount >> B39 56D7 D14C DE5D D0CE 3BFC 7362 64C5 3DB7 9EBB >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
