A Sexta, 25 de Fevereiro de 2011 12:29:52 Marco Martin você escreveu: > On Friday 25 February 2011, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > You would like my solution to this problem....... I call its space :) > > the desktp is a view on a linear expanding space (it just expandes side > > ways)... that revolves into itself, (you can make the space grow or > > shrink ). and you can scrool the space in your desktop view.... This is > > not much difrent from the desktop we have now, just that you can stop a > > view in betwin virtual desktops. > > > > Ortogonal to this space you would have activities that are simple > > colections of spaces, in an activity everything can be diferent. just > > like in our cuurrent activities.... wen you browse them you woud see > > stacks of spaces piled one ot top of the other.... > > let's call this "analog" virtual desktops, where your viewport can be > positioned in any place of the extended huge desktop
cool :) > > Problems.... aparently the way virtual desktops are build do not alow > > this to be real, secondly I would have to make realy huge wallpaper that > > would > > not sure about our virtual desktops right now.. seems that the workspaces > of compiz are slightly nearer to the concept this is from wen i frist had this idea and talked with martin about it... > > be continous strips. Third, a realy elegant presentation of this concep > > needs a opengl canvas. > > what about a wallpaper that is just *slightly* bigger and have an huge > parallax effect? ;) (even the space for widgets shouldn't be much bigger, i > think) I have done several wallpaers for the n900 and as a result i ended up becomning not so bad at "stitching" wallpapers we could even create wallpaers on the go... using traditional wallpapers and some tricks i learned. > > But this would solve the problem as it realy makes activities and > > desktops ortogonal visualy speaking. plus it woul be somthing that > > relates much more to real life space tends to be circular around us...we > > can put documents out of our view but easy to reach it by simply movig > > our view to it... > > btw, to see a bit how this could behave, unfortunately somebody already > tought about this already (and even more unfortunately, it's a windows > application) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-R2SU4dKa8 > http://www.360desktop.com/ Gi one can't have an original idea this days:) still its should be much more fluid than that ... and paralax maybe an interesting idea for the movment.... needs testing... A side efect of this would be that a quinda obvius set of efects would need to be defoult.... IMO a good ting... O and imagine what we could do for dual head setups in such a enviroment.... you could position the view's any ware on the strip glue them toguether, overlap them or put them in completly difrent places... O well one can dream :D > Cheers, > Marco Martin > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel oxygen guy, "I make the pretty pictures" _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel