[ubuntu-art] Intuitive application lister and other loopy discussions (was Re: next meeting)

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

On 10/02/2008, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mockups, eh? Well, here are a few to look at.
> Firstly, I have indeed been very very slowly poking at the application
> switcher thought as a panel applet. Not really anywhere far yet, but this
> discussion got me opening up the project again. I guess that's a step in the
> right direction...
>
> I am toying with a button-looking container with some toggle buttons within
> for each process. The one you see here is really just an ugly hack (and a
> mockup, obviously), but it shows the idea:
> http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2454/screenshotmainpyoq9.png
>  The icon on the left is for the process, while the other two text labels
> are its open windows. Icons for individual windows are sadly not
> happening... something creative will have to be done.
>
> Robin.com.au's very clever mockup is what got me going on this precise
> tangent:
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320315


I hate to be a party killer, but unless you guys are prepared to
follow this up with code (GObjects in C, not an interpreted language),
then there is a snowman's chance in hell of this ever becoming
real[1].

There is unfortunately no such thing as "idle developers", who just
happen to have a lot of spare time and no project to hack on.

On top of the development there is also the politics involved -
consider the case of Novells main menu. Novell put a *lot* of work
here with many seasoned developers, and it is still not included in
Gnome. Getting Gnome main inclusion for such a core piece of the
desktop is essential. Ubuntu can not maintain such a piece of software
without it being "in the loop".


Cheers,
Mikkel

[1]: This applies to basically all circulated ideas popping up on this
mailing list.


> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Laignel <a.laignel at ukdotcafe.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Álvaro Medina Ballester wrote:
> > > If Ubuntu is going to lead GNU/Linux revolution, let's start thinking
> > > some things, lets make some specifications, let's design a new gui for
> > > gnome and let's help gnome's team to develop it!
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm glad to know that there are a lot of people interested in this :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > I'll try to reply to the rest tomorrow - gotta go to bed now.  I totally
> > agree though and have been thinking about a similar idea for a few
> > months now.  Basically design a mockup system of the ultimate desired
> > system, complete with menus, software and detailed documentation on
> > behaviour, and more importantly, reasons for this behaviour.
> >
> > It seems quite a lot of developers use a closed source version as a
> > reference when creating a FOSS version.  I believe that the open source
> > community would benefit massively from a 'virtual distro' which could
> > appeal to the creative types normally excluded from the development
> > process and provide a bridge between usability and code.  It would also
> > apply the 'many eyes' theory to UI design and provide an alternate place
> > for developers to get ideas from.
> >
> >
> >
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