Re: Main Menu mockup

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

I'd love to try it out unfortunately 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468860

is preventing me from doing so :/

/me wonders how these kinds of bugs will effect the proposed GNOME shell
technologies? 

BR,
 K

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 23:57 +1300, Matthew McGowan wrote:
> Hello gnome desktop developers,
> 
> Apologies if this is the wrong forum for such an email.
> 
> I have seen a fair bit of discussion about usability ideas for Gnome 3.  
> Going by a post on planet.gnome.org, the current thinking as far as 
> desktop interaction[1] seems to involve some kind of multi-functional 
> left-sided panel. 
> 
> Inspired by recent discussions and a few other applications such as 
> Opera and Adobe Acrobat 8, i decided to have a go at developing some of 
> my own ideas and add them to the mix.  I used Clutter and python to do 
> so as these tools offer a relatively easy way of layering images and 
> cairo textures whilst at the same time Clutter allowed me to provide 
> some degree of interactivity (which further demonstrates ideas).
> 
> You can get my main menu mockup/prototype from here:
> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/123544/main-menu-mockup.tar.gz
> 
> To run my mockup you need clutter 0.8 and pyclutter installed.
> 
> My main menu mockup, i believe, offers more functionality than existing 
> main menus... though i guess it is similar to the Novells Slab menu and 
> Vista's Start menu(?).  It would provide a single location for browsing 
> applications, friends/contacts, places, deskbar-like search, document 
> history, logout options and system preferences & administration.
> 
> I believe many users would be somewhat familiar with the paradigm i 
> offer as there are precedents in the software world, Adobe Acrobat 8, 
> Opera, Slab, and Vista start menu and the likes of web browsers and 
> Banshee which implement similar UI ideas (with regard to panel-type 
> interfaces which expose application functionality).
> 
> I am no coder and i don't really know how buggy/attractive the code is, 
> it runs fine on my Ubuntu 8.10 system... the main threat is missing 
> icons, but i think it should handle the absence of icons gracefully...
> 
> Hopefully some of you will look at my mockup and provide some feedback 
> or maybe develop some of the ideas.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Matthew McGowan
> 
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