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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Activities interaction
From:       Jamboarder <jamboarder () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2008-12-01 21:05:04
Message-ID: 58822.43661.qm () web37302 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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> From: Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
> On Monday 01 December 2008, Jamboarder wrote:
> > The primary function of "Zoom Out", at least in desktop's current form,
> > seems to be to show available activities.  Once there, you can choose to
> > select a different activity, add activities, remove activities, etc. 
> > Perhaps "Show Activities" or "Activities" might communicate what "Zoom Out"
> > is used for.  (If we get to the point where we have semantic zooming in
> > place, then perhaps we will define what each of the next levels/thresholds
> > are).
> 
> yes, zooming is a bit "interface follows implementation" which isn't the best.
> 
> the question is: what does "Zoom In" become? Select Activity?


Yeah, I was thinking about and "Select Activity" is about the best I could come up \
with as well.  

Although, if the "activity browsing" interaction in this Show Activities/zoomed out \
mode was something other than click-and-drag then we could select activities based on \
system-wide selection setting (single-click or double-click).  This would imply a \
relatively traditional browsing and selection mechanism in the Show Activities/Zoomed \
out mode, similar to say the icon view in Dolphin (which would also allow the use of \
the keyboard as well).  There might be a slight transition problem though with the \
shift from the in-activity selection mechanism to this extra-activity selection \
mechanism...  Just thinking out loud..

Andrew
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