As an addition to the reply to Ed Lin: Imagine when the launcher gets overflowed with launcher so that it stacks them at the top and bottom, how would this work together with your design?
2011/5/24 Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqv...@gmail.com> > 2011/5/24 Ed Lin <edlin...@gmail.com> > >> A very rough sketch based on your image and parts scraped from google >> images... >> http://i.imgur.com/WMLYk.png > > I understand your idea but to me it feels like a last resort "make it just > work" solution. > > 1. It takes up a really big part of the launcher. The mockup is based on a > screen with 1050 px height so on smaller screens it could take up a majority > of the launcher. > > 2. None of the items are separated from other launcher items visually > (which I understand is the idea with it). This would probably be confusing > for new users since they will act differently than other launchers and IMHO > visually look bad. The "icons" will be dynamic, the icons within icons (e.g. > wifi, sound, battery) will be really hard to make look like they're there > because a thought through design choice. > > 3. It will completely rule out standard third party applications. > > 4. If a regular launcher have a black icon, it will be totally confusing. > > Not to be rude but there must be a better way to solve this than with this > design. It's not bad to make different elements of the OS look different, > often it's a plus. > > 2011/5/24 Ian Santopietro <isan...@gmail.com> > >> Why can't we let the top panel stay and hold the indicators? >> > The top panel takes up a lot of vertical screen space and with it it's > harder to design interfaces for third party applications which are based > upon Fitt's law since they cannot use the top screen edge, which often holds > many of the most important elements of an application UI. That's just some > of the reasons. > > 2011/5/24 Ed Lin <edlin...@gmail.com> > >> A very rough sketch based on your image and parts scraped from google >> images... >> http://i.imgur.com/WMLYk.png >> >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist >> <niklas.s.rosenqv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 2011/5/24 Ed Lin <edlin...@gmail.com> >> >> I hope I cleared that up as above. I probably should do a mockup >> >> myself (if have time...) >> > >> > I would very much like to see that, I'm having some trouble visualizing >> your >> > idea and this would help me greatly! >> > 2011/5/24 Henrik Peytz <henrik.pe...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> 2011/5/24 Ed Lin <edlin...@gmail.com> >> >>> >> >>> I hope I cleared that up as above. I probably should do a mockup >> >>> myself (if have time...) >> >> >> >> If you guys don't mind, would you make a full desktop-mockup of the >> ideas? >> >> It's always nice to see how people see it fit into the greater whole. >> One >> >> thing is how the indicators will look, another is how the desktop will >> look >> >> without the current indicator being where it is now; perhaps it'll open >> up >> >> new possibilities, etc. ^^ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >
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