On 05/29/2012 09:55 PM, shane lee wrote: > Widgets are nothing new. They have been on the go for many years and > never really taken off. > I know quite a few people using KDE, including myself who have never > bothered with widgets after the first few days of novelty factor. > Android has a lot of very good ideas but not all are going to > translate that well to a larger desktop interface. > The desktop concept is far from dead and will be with us for some time yet. I'm not at all saying it's dead , and I agree it's possible that some of the features may not translate good to a PC . It's just that Ubuntu is becoming launcher/dock-centric , and the Desktop is going to lose (or at least I think is supposed to lose) its current functions . Some more support to the idea : Mark Shuttleworth himself said that Unity has the goal to be tablet/smartphone compatible as much (if not more) as it should be PC usable (sry for the messed up sentence) . So the desktop should get some new functionality , and I think that taking a second look at widgets is a nice start . Yes they've failed on PCs initially , but now with the experience on tablets/phones , I think they are something that can be successfully implemented . What I imagine is a desktop with a native way to add a widget (right click -> select/configure widget) , with a list of 4-5 widgets (each with 1-2 sizes/forms) and the option to download more . And a design near that of a phone/tablet widget (not a tiny box of a widget,like the first ones that got out ) - nice big weather widget , clock , maybe options for mail, social networks , or watever someone wants to develop . The main idea is to give the desktop some dynamic functionality and usability , and if it's native and easy to use users will handle it and be happy with it .
Another thing that I've thought about is making dynamic wallpapers an option . I'm just throwing that out there , some day I'll start a thread on it too . Petko -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
