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Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] On the future of the menubar
From:       "Onur - Hayri Bakici" <thehayro () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-02-28 13:28:37
Message-ID: 201002281428.38199.thehayro () gmail ! com
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That is awesome!
thank you

Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 14:18:43 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
> On Friday 26 February 2010 16:38:39 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > My my. Not entirely related but I just read the blog below and it's worth
> > > a read - the PDF contains a lot of interesting ideas...
> > > 
> > > http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/26/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/
> > 
> > Would you please summarize the ideas? That man is writing for himself,
> > not his audience, and if you've already gone about and parsed his
> > writings then I'd love to know the important bits to have them in KDE
> > as well. Thanks.
> 
> There are a LOT of ideas in there, mostly in the PDF file:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~seth/zuhanden-gnome3.pdf
> 
> It is really interesting. Two of those ideas:
> 
> The task management Pooper:
> drop anything to a bar on the bottom of the screen. It will become a task. It 
> is based on how many ppl use email for taskmgmt. Has some smart interaction 
> ideas, including prediction of mouse movement (once you start dragging in the 
> direction of the botom panel, it will become visible). It's self-emptying, 
> non-interupting etc. Read the description, it's interesting.
> 
> physical-absolute-touchpad mapping:
> say you have 4 windows running, you activate expose. Taping on the top-right 
> corner of the touchpad activates the ... surprise... top-right window etc. 
> They also propose to use it in menu's and other places.
> 
> Really, it's a long read, but the PDF is worth it. Several of those ideas 
> REALLY make sense. Having to punch the side of a screen with the mouse to let 
> the panel pop up instead of just being there - brilliant, it's the exact 
> reason why I don't use auto-hiding panels. They show up when I don't want 
> them. And having them show already way on time when I want to drag & drop 
> something on them - even better!
> 
> They even suggest to use that mouse movement prediction to open menu's like 
> the places menu on the toolbar on draging of a file in that direction. 
> Brilliant.
> 
> Check it out!
> 
> Jos
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