Re: [Usability] GNOME3: Handling/Opening Documents (Website for Contributing Ideas?)

[Branden Timm <branden timm gmail com>]

The icon zooming features you are talking about have been implemented
in Enlightenment's DR17's *very beta* file browser called evidence. 
Might be worth taking a peak at.

On 4/19/05, Samuel Abels <newsgroups debain org> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero
> 
> the website were users are supposed to add ideas for G3?
> Either way, comments may not be a bad idea, so here's a mail first.
> 
> Currently, most of the GNOME applications feel like, well, applications.
> I thought about why, for example, a word processor does not feel like
> what I believe it in essence should: A sheet of paper.
> How could it be fixed?
> 
> * Add better interaction of the document's icon with the application:
>    - The icon should be a thumbnailed preview of the actual document.
>      (This is actually possible today.)
>    - When the mouse hovers over the document, it should automagically
>      zoom in a little. (Ok, also may be possible with Gnome 2.x)
>    - When the icon is clicked, make it display a small progressbar,
>      optimally one that is attached to the icon.
>    - When the application is loaded, the document zooms to real size and
>      the toolbar is attached. There is no real window border and the
>      controls are kept to a minimum. Basically, the application IS the
>      paper.
>    - Consequently, when the application is closed, it zooms out and
>      becomes an icon again.
> 
> * The above is implicitely also a plea for "Instant Save". If the
> document IS the paper, it needs to save changes immediately. That of
> course also means that a history needs to be saved elsewhere, so that
> when an application crashes the history is not lost. Instant save has
> also the advantage to let you get rid of the "Save" (and "Save all")
> button, so even less clutter for the GUI.
> 
> The same could be done with movies: When clicked, play the movie as a
> thumbnail to indicate the load process, then zoom to the real size and
> restart.
> 
> A bit less serious sidenote: If you think more into this direction, you
> could make the user use a virtual pen to write on the virtual paper. Or,
> maybe even make him use a real pen to write on real paper. What did we
> have computers for, again? ;)
> 
> -Samuel
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