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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Alternative to traditional (virtual) desktop: The Strip
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2005-12-05 10:23:53
Message-ID: 200512051124.23483.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Monday 05 December 2005 11:09, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:

> When the user moves the cursor to the edge of the screen (or by using other
> means, described below), the screen would smoothly start to scroll to that
> direction. There would be no separate desktops as such, there would just be
> a virtual "strip" of desktop, that the user could smoothly navigate. Apps
> could be located in different parts of the strip, and the user could switch
> between them easily.
>
> In the bottom of the screen we would have the Navigation-strip. It would
> show the strip, and the apps user has running on it. The user could launch
> different apps to different parts of the strip, and they would be displayed
> in corresponding location on the navigation-strip. The user could click on
> the app, and he would be taken to the correct location on the strip, with
> the app up & running. The Navigation-strip would contain a viewfinder or
> something that show the user the area of the strip he's currently looking
> at.

So this would be like an X setup with a greater virtual than physical width 
but with kicker moving along instead of being expanded?

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtforum.org

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