Re: Main Menu mockup

[Matthew McGowan <matthew joseph mcgowan gmail com>]

Karl Lattimer wrote:
> 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
> >
> > _____________________
> > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore
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>
>   
Bummer,
X.org drivers, the weakest link?


Matt