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Globe Installer: a drag n drop interface

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Globe Installer: a drag n drop interface
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Downloads:  128
Submitted:  Nov 10 2007
Updated:  Nov 10 2007

Description:

Globe Installer V. 0.1
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This is my idea to make a handy drag n drop interface/applet/plasmoid that would let you install things in a very easy way.

The concept is simple:

The RED internal globe: represents the system, the core.
The BLUE outer globe: represents the user space.

I picked two colors (RED and BLUE) but you can imagine another color pair, this doesnt really matters.

The Globe Installer let you drag and drop files into internal (RED) or into outer (BLUE) globe. Depending on wich globe you dropped the object and on the file-type, the Globe Installer will call an appropriate procedure.
The RED (system) globe will ALWAYS ask you for root password, as it involves the entire system.

Just let me show an example:
As shown in my mock-up, if we drop a font file into the red globe, we'll be prompted to install the font in the system, so it will ask for password. If we drop the font file into the blue globe, the font will be immediately installed into the current user home.
Now imagine this behavior extended:
- Music files in the blue glove will install (move, redirect) into our ~/Music folder
- DEB or RPM Packages dropped in the red globe will call for installation.
- Libraries and binaries (?) will install locally to the user or directly into the system (shared).

I imagined the Globe Installer as a part of Dolphin (see figure) or just as a Plasmoid (see figure).
Maybe the concept could be extended, let me know.



Mock-Up by PhoenixBF

Style used: Serenity
Font used: Folks
Icons used for plasmoid: DarkGlass



License:
Free. GlobeInstaller Icon = Artistic 2.0

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 Hmm

 
 by ziuchkov on: Nov 10 2007
 
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It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it is very intuitive. A user has to read some sort of documentation in order to understand what it does. I think it makes more sense to just use the actions in the "Information" side bar of Dolphin for whatever you want (i.e. add one that says 'install font for user' and one that says 'install font for system'). A user can easily understand what the actions do by reading the text and can simply click actions as they desire. Just my 2 cents.


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 Re: Hmm

 
 by phoenixbf on: Nov 10 2007
 
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It is meant as an alternative friendly applet, such as a plasmoid, without replacing existing menu actions.
Just imagine drag and drop every file into the globe.

I forgot to mention a kind of feedback, so when you hover the blue or red globe a non-intrusive friendly message would appear and explain what the drop is gonna do.

BTW thanks for feedback, I must think and maybe reshape my idea.


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 Brilliant...

 
 by Contrast on: Nov 10 2007
 
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I really like this idea. It'd be awesome to see it become a reality... As for it being unintuitive because the user has to read the docs to figure out how to use it (which I guess wouldn't really be the case given the tooltip functionality you mentioned), if every program which required the user to read a few sentences were tossed aside, I imagine we'd be left with rather bare and unimaginative desktops. :-)


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 Awesome idea

 
 by wheeeeee on: Nov 12 2007
 
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This would be a very good idea. The drag and drop part would be difficult to make, but once that is over it is simple. Probably like:

Font > Red globe
sudo mv /path/to/font /path/to/sys/font/directory

Font > Blue globe
mv /path/to/font ~/.fonts

deb > red
kdesu gdebi /path/to/package.deb
rpm > red
kdesu <rpm install command> /path/to/rpm.rpm

and maybe...
tarball > red
# something along the lines of this
untar tarball.tar.gz;cd tarball.tar.gz_FILES;./configure;make;sudo make install
(this command means "Extract tarball.tar.gz, go into it, run configure, compile it and install it")
but since there is almost no way to install packages into your home (most of the time (without filling up /home)) the red globe should expand and cover the blue one when you are dragging a package over to it. Same with stuff like music, except with that, the red globe would shrink (otherwise the result might be /usr/share/music). Basically i am saying this should be a hybrid of SH and another language (maybe Python?)


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 Re: Awesome idea

 
 by phoenixbf on: Nov 17 2007
 
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Yes, you got the point.

Each MIME type (ok, not all... the most useful) should be in a sort of configurable table. The user can setup new behaviors or modify existing ones of Globes.


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 by pearluck on: Nov 13 2007
 
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It's not a good idea for fonts. The best is to create a real font software like Suitcase Fusion (Mac OSX) with three type of fonts:

- system: modify with password but yo can Hide de fonts in font menue of software without password.

- user fonts: you can do anything without password.

- temporary fonts: automatic delete when restart computer on click on "delete temporary fonts".


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 Re:

 
 by phoenixbf on: Nov 17 2007
 
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You didnt get the point.

Font is just a silly example, it's not a Font Installer program or such. It's a kind of plasmoid to handle and install MIME-types with different priviledges graphically.


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 by pearluck on: Nov 13 2007
 
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type of fonts = category of fonts

sorry, I'me not english...


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 Genius!

 
 by mathetes on: Nov 27 2007
 
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Great idea!! Really, its so simple, genius! Its like installing in os x where you just have to drag the aplication to the aplications section in finder, but much powerfull!!
Also the idea of the red or the blue orb filling the entire space when you cant actually do it other way is great!It would be great to see it in kde4, or maybe someone not necesarilly from the kde team could do it. Go ahead with your idea, linux really needs stuff like this!


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 Re: Genius!

 
 by phoenixbf on: Dec 1 2007
 
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thanks


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