Re: [Usability]A Challenge: Describe the GNOME 4.0 interface.

[Robert Renling <robert beunited org>(by way of Robert Renling <robert beunited org>)]

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On Friday 08 November 2002 17.10, Joshua Adam Ginsberg wrote:
> Dave, what's crazy is that I had like the same idea... kinda...
>
> Forget applications... put everything within Nautilus... make everything
> embeddable... you use the Nautilus file manager to navigate your tree
> (somehow as much as database held file solutions may seem cool, I
> imagine you'll have to pry my file tree out of my cold dead hands) and
> then open a document with a specified view/editor... that component is
> then embedded within that Nautilus window... so Abiword, for example,
> becomes a view within Nautilus... Nautilus itself only has a single menu
> for navigational purposes...and Abiword merges its menu items into the
> Nautilus menu bar... and below the Navigation toolbar Abiword registers
> a view specific toolbar...
>
> And since Galeon4 is also a view, it also integrates seamlessly into
> Nautilus...
>
> The panel still exists, but only for non-document centric tasks...
> monitors, gAIM, clock, things of this nature...

*cough* who says that we cant integrate an im into this document pane :D

lets take an interesting thing like a file that contains a table of personal
and contact information , a pim file, a people file from beos etc etc and
when selecting/shading the file/s/ you can select what protocol to use..
a workalike seem to be in the works for the now deprecated Beos platform at
http://beosimkit.sf.net it also has a whitepaper in the cvs (if it isnt there
i can provide it)

comments ?

> The desktop acts more like a physical desktop in that the vFolder (yeah,
> GNOME 4 will have these with the file tree) or folder being used as the
> desktop (v)Folder is changable... it contains icons for the documents in
> the folder representing the task I'm currently working on...
>
> Furthermore, since GNOME 4 is fully integrated with web services using
> the .GNET platform (created from the acquisition of Microsoft by
> Ximian), various monitors keep up with the changing plethora of
> information on the net... imagine GNOME 4 informing you when a new
> Slashdot or GnomeDesktop.org headline appears... or when updated
> packages are available off of Red Carpet... or when the Honorable
> Senator Richard Stallman (EFF Party - MA) has a new public statement
> about how the government is spending the billions of your tax dollars
> saved from abandoning Microsoft products...
>
> Finally, gnome-vfs4 seamlessly unites itself with all aspects of the
> user-interface... since the merger of gAIM with GnomeMeeting, you can
> click on links within an Evolution contact or within a webpage to begin
> a webcam enabled chat with somebody else, regardless of the IM protocol
> being used... ICQ (since the implosion of AOL/TW, Mirabilis bought ICQ
> back), H.323, Jabber, you name it... gnome-terminal runs a gnash, a
> gnome-enabled shell that allows you to enter commands like "cp
> some_document.abw sftp://joshg my gnet org/Documents"...
>
> Aah, the future looks nice...
>
> -jag
>
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 06:26, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> >  Well last nite I had this crazy idea that everything would be a nautilus
> >  view (this is purely at theoretical level since I'm not sure if nautilus
> >  is robust to support this right now or if this is even a good idea). At
> >  the shell level the only common window element is the menu bar. Common
> >  to all views is the view as menu, which lets users switch how they are
> >  viewing an object. All other menu items, toolbars, statusbars etc. are
> >  view/object dependent dependent. For most views you would have a root
> >  view (similar to nautilus' FM-directory-view) that provides the basic
> >  menu structure, toolbars etc. Other views could build upon this view to
> >  provide other functionality.
> >
> >  This is just one idea of an implementation (and probably wrong one but
> >  thats ok).

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