New GNOME UI Proposal

["Jared White" <jwhite sonic net>]

Hi folks,

I'm very excited to announce that I've drawn up a simple proposal for what
I'd like to see in a future version of GNOME. A lot of the ideas I came up
with couldn't be implemented easily, so I'm not even attempting to target
GNOME 2.0 with this proposal. However, a few ideas might seem to fit in with
what the GNOME head hunchos are planning, which is the most I can hope for
at this time.

Here's the address of the proposal, complete with fake screenshots/mock-ups:

http://www.jaredwhite.com/ngui/index.html

A few words: after a friend took a quick look at this, he suggested having,
instead of or in addition to the "hover arrow", scroll bars on the two
application panels featured. When you look at the proposal I think you'll
see what I mean. If not, I'll try to come up with a better explanation.

Also, I moved the buttons around a bit in the mock-up with the alternative
position of the Applications Bar -- that's probably not a good idea, but I
thought maybe different button positions would make the most important
buttons easier to hit quickly. Again, when you look at the proposal this
should make sense.

Anyway, please let me know what you all think. In fact, if you think it
stinks, I'd like to know that too. Any feedback is good feedback!

Thanks a lot, take care,

Jared