I like the idea a lot. When I have a bit more time, I'm going to try to come up with a prototype for this, along with some drag and drop functionality to make it usable for inexperienced users. (E.g. Dragging a file over a shape/sheet would make the shape expand so that the user knows that they can simply drop the file to place it in a new shape.)
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Murat Yukselen <muratyukse...@gmail.com>wrote: > Your solution is on file level and pretty good. I wish it is possible. I > also use 4 workspaces 1 for mail&pidgin, 2 for work and 1 for media. > > My feature request helps when you can not separate files to different > folders. If you should live in a single folder and need to work the feature > I defined is very helpful. For example, you have a folder full of files but > you need to work on files (lots of pictures for example). You can assign > icons to sheets and then control the sheet visibility. It is like tagging > each icon with the sheet name but sheets are more helpful I think. > Especially when moving a group of icons at the same time. > > Is my feature request sound? Can it help gnome users? I am just curious > about this idea. What if it is implemented on gnome first and so on:) > > By the way, this is my second post in this mailing list. I am writing here > to state my idea that may be helpful. I could not find a way to issue > feature request and wrote my idea here. > > Thanks, > Murat Yukselen > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Jasir Alavi <jasiral...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can assigning a different folder (Desktop1, Desktop2, etc) for each >> workspace be possible? >> If so, we can sort and keep files for each workspace. i think this is more >> logical for the idea of workspaces. >> >> example, i use a cube with four workspaces. >> i can then use the workspace 1 for 'work', workspace 2 for 'Media', 3 for >> 'games', etc. >> >> could this then allow us to use different wallpaper for each of them? >> (without relying on the compiz wallpaper plugin?) >> >> Jasir >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:14 PM, 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 >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > Usability@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > - Natan
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