hello, i think that your idea seems like a menu in the desktop containing your launchers, could you make a simple mock up to clarify
dario soto On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Murat Yukselen <muratyukse...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I have an idea on organizing icons. May be this idea is expressed before > but I could not find. > > Many people like to place icons on the desktop and organize them. Some > could not organize well but like to keep them all on desktop and see > everything. > > My idea is to introduce users sheets to place on top of desktops mainly. > But since this idea will be implemented in nautilus, every folder can use > this helper. > > Here is the use case: > User will be able to define a geometry as a sheet basically and customize > it. The sheet can have different transparent colors, textures and so on. > Each icon on the desktop can be placed on a sheet helping user to > meaningfully organize icons on sheets. For example user likes to group his > game shortcuts with documents on to a blue "Gaming" sheet and group > development shortcuts onto other "Tools" sheet and projects onto the other > "workspace" sheet. User will be able to tidy the icons on a single sheet and > also move the sheets on the desktop freely. User will also be able to set > sheet visibility further. Also the sheet visibility configuration can be > mapped with users precense state. > > Idea of using a sheet for organizing icons may be handy. I do not know the > impact on usability. If it is implemented anywhere before but sometimes I > wish I could organize my icons with a basic method like this. > > Regards, > Murat Yukselen > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > Usability@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > >
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