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[Álvaro Medina Ballester]

Andrew, your ideas are great, but I find one problem in that draft. I think
that you will need at least 3 clicks to open an app, and that's not usable.
Current gnome's menu is quite obsolete, three clicks needed to open any app,
so improving this could be a killer feature.

How can we do this? trying to merge window selector with application link.
Maybe if window selector becomes app selector we can try to design this.
Anyway, your ideas are great. Gnome has too much space in the top panel that
is not used, so it should dissapear.

Cheers.

2008/2/8, Dalton Miyabara <dmiya at terra.com.br>:
>
> I would like to use this new desktop interface suggestion ^^
>
> But I think that we have no time to make these mods until the launch of
> 8.04... :(
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dalton
>
>
> > Here's an idea, and something I have been wanting for a long time...
> >
> > Get rid of the 'Desktop' as a file store - remove it from the directory
> > hierarchy!
> >
> > The only reason to store something on the desktop is if you can't be
> > bothered to put it where it's meant to go.  Ideally everything should be
> > in the home folder, rather than split across a locations.  Everything
> > else - shortcuts, pseudo-icons could remain but only if handled by the
> > system in an organised fashion ala Mac OS (drives and folders down RHS).
> >
> > The mixing of shortcuts, files, and system icons is generally a bad idea
> > as you don't know whats what largely.  Generally most desktops are just
> > an ugly mess.
> >
> > If you remove the desktop-as-a-junkstore paradigm that everyone always
> > does because everyone's always done it it opens up many new
> > opportunities for using the desktop as an actual interface rather than
> > the reliance on toolbars.  It would also make a more intuitive system as
> > you have more space to work with (as it will hide behind windows) so you
> > are not constrained to 32px height restrictions.
> >
> > You could have multiple icons for various things that would expand out
> > when hovered or clicked such as home folder, drives, places, software
> > etc.  You could shade all the controls or slide them out of the way when
> > the desktop has no focus to prevent accidental clicks, and maybe slide
> > the home folder out if someone does try to drag something to the desktop
> > to make it obvious that's not where it goes.
> >
> > I've done a quick mockup of what I think would improve on the GUI.
> > Obviously it's not perfect but there may be some good ideas there.  With
> > all the effort being spent on all the other areas of Ubuntu, more should
> > be spent on the interface.
> >
>
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