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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Doc-dock? (was: Pooling task bar buttons.)
From:       Dave Leigh <dave.leigh () cratchit ! org>
Date:       2002-02-09 16:10:29
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Damn it, Sean, now you've got me pondering again. No good can come of it, for 
my pondering is ponderous. Try this one:

On Friday 08 February 2002 11:50, Sean Pecor wrote:

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> metaphor that would get accessed about once every couple of minutes. Do you
> know what people do with paperwork they reference often? I do. It's piled
> together in one or two stacks on their desk! ;). They glance once at the
> pile, see what they need, and pull it out. This requires a very simple
> thought process and is quite similar to the task bar. It's less disruptive
> to most work processes.

Do you know what I do with physical documents I access often? I got a 
bunch of those big clips that they sell at the grocery store for pinching 
closed your bag of crisps. I hang those on the walls of my cubicle.  Then 
commonly referenced files are hung on the clips. My desktop is uncluttered, 
my files are accessible, and I don't even have to reach for them... just 
glance.  In a pinch you can use those big black binder clips (they're not as 
good because they don't support the paper at the corners and it curls). It 
beats thumbtacks when you have a multi-page document.

So, what if something similar could be done here? Perhaps a dock for 
documents (a "doc-dock?"). As you mouse over a doc then the icon-zooming 
technique could be used to display a thumbnail? A largish thumbnail 
preferably (say, an inch by an inch and a half). Just a thought.

It really isn't the same as the taskbar issue, so I've changed the subject.

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