On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:36 +0200, Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi online folks, > > I've posted some ideas for online desktop integration in GNOME here: > > http://blogs.gnome.org/lucasr/2007/10/30/people-menu-online-desktop-and-instant-messaging-in-gnome/ > > Comments?. "My main argument is that we should not have a separate “online desktop mode” but try to turn our desktop into a web-aware environment." My reaction to that is that we *are* trying to turn GNOME into a web-aware environment. The online desktop mode is just a way to let people try out our idea for the next generation of GNOME while still largely using unmodified GNOME components. The sidebar is our current best idea of the user interface, but certainly the idea of the Online Desktop isn't tied to it ... you could also do it by extension of the current user interface. Some of the reasons we've been working on a sidebar * We believe that the prevalence of wide-screen formats make a sidebar natural for a lot of people. Web pages don't need or take advantage of the full width of a wide screen. (The minimize-to-and-applet mode of the sidebar is more menu-like and designed for people with less screen real estate or more things to do with their screen real estate.) * The sidebar provides a way of radically changing the emphasis of the UI...to concentrate on different things, like your friends, rather than launching applications. * We try to actively present useful information to the user rather than making the user always have to go and navigate to it. If you reserve an area of the screen for this you can do so with less distraction and annoyance then popups. (The "currently playing music" track feature] in the people stock works a lot better for me than music popups in the Mugshot stacker.) * People need a graphical image in their head of "what's different" about a new version. There's value to looking different just to look different. - Owen
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