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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Active Desktop (ish)
From:       Julien Olivier <julo () altern ! org>
Date:       2002-04-02 7:31:54
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I hade such an idea weeks ago but I never found the time to actually code it. 
I think that shouldn't be lot of work thanks to kparts. I really think that's 
the way the desktop should be designed.

On Sunday 31 March 2002 16:02, David Golden wrote:
> Yes, I know it's almost universally hated in windows -
>
> BUT - I'm more thinking of making the root window
> a perfectly normal konqueror window (without borders),
> and putting the browser control buttons and address bar
> etc in kicker (the single most annoying problem with
> windows active desktop it lacks such controls)
>
>  Since konqueror is already a file browser,
> and the current Desktop folder is just another directory that could
> presumably be easily presented in konqueror I think it'd
> be quite nice.and a logical generalisation, if the Desktop _was_ a
> konqueror window.
>
> Then, rather than normal "virtual desktops", for
> application windows to be associated "dynamic virtual desktops"
> with the directory the konqueror-root-window was in - so, for example,
> you'd have /home/david/Projects/ReligiousCult/
> open on a virtual desktop, then when you went to a different directory, say
> /home/david/Projects/WorldDomination/ , it'd be
> a different virtual desktop.
>
> N.B. I'm not suggesting that the applications
> on the desktops be limited to editing files in that particular directory,
> but that "desktop personalities" be associated with being in particular
> directories.
>
>
>
> Am I going to code all that?   Afraid not.  Am currently having
> to work on a wince-based project (argh. argh.argh) to put
> food on the table...

-- 
Julien Olivier

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