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think small and simple

  

KDE4 Brainstorm

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think small and simple
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Submitted:  Jun 12 2006

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it's been 13 years now i work with a graphical desktop environment. i have today the same problems i had 13 years ago. there's no room.

i have found a decent way to work by getting rid of virtual screens, taskbars and the lot, by moving my menu bar to the top of the screen and by using alt-tab to swich between apps, but...

1) (re)think small
i need to take my laptop with me all the time. kde is the only reasonable desktop environment, but working with it on a 12" or 14" 1024x768 monitor is a nightmare. everything takes up too much room.

2) (re)think simple
my experience says that 90% of the people use at most 10% of the features anyway... in fact, i find myself more and more disabling features (animations, visual effects, sounds, you name it).




Changelog:

i know there's aren't any reals proposals in this post. i don't really have any. sorry.

cheers




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 i understand

 
 by Superstoned on: Jun 12 2006  
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the problem with these things is that its very hard to remove things nobody uses - everyone uses different things. I never use the zoom buttons in konqi, for example. I know ctrl-+ and ctrl-- will take care of zoom. But many ppl don't know that, and need/want them.

cleaning up is hard. If you have ideas, or are willing to help clean up dialogs and interfaces for KDE 4, i'm sure there are ways to contribute.


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 Space economising

 
 by gollum on: Jun 14 2006  
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To inrease the place for what we realy use, and not menu etc...

I think that a simple think whould be to put the main menu ( here in konq I have Location Edit View Bookmarks Tools ... ) Into the window decoration -> about 20 pixels gained in horisontal space, thats "huge" enouth to be considered I think.

At least, an option should enable/disable it


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 brainstorming, then

 
 by gcorti on: Jun 21 2006  
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i see your point, superstoned.
it's not easy.

i did some casual thinking.
and since this is the brainstorm forum, i'll just brainstorm.

MVC (Model, View, Controller)
applications have similar needs. open, close, quit, next, previous, save, ...be it a text file, a piece of code, a song, a picture, ... applications allow access to these actions through toolbars. and every app has its own. what if MVC was exploited and a "desktop" toolbar was made available?

on startup, apps would register as listeners and would register their behaviour. this toolbar would then act on the active window/app.

this would save up a lot of space (and not only space) in each app and in the desktop as a whole.

possibly, other stuff may be implemented along the same line... list of open files, bookmarks, search boxes, ...

in my mind, this would be handy, 'cause the same action/feature/object is always in the same place, looks always the same way, ...

what do you reckon?

cheers!
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 Re: brainstorming, then

 
 by axl008 on: Jul 28 2006  
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I like that idea very much. It seems to me to be similar to the mac-style menu bar on top of the screen. I don't like windows being overcrowded with menus, tool bars etc. It should be with the tool bars as it already is with the menu bar: users choice, if he/she want's to have the icons within the windows and thereby repeated for every window or in some sidebar or something similar.


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 progress bars

 
 by gcorti on: Jun 21 2006  
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i just bumped into a post suggesting the same basic idea...with progress bars...

cheers!
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 For only about 60%

 
 by hambker777 on: Jun 28 2006  
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Not everybody has such a high resolution that small icons can be recognisable. Furthermore, older (50+) people don't like small items because of their eyes.

You would cut off about 40% of the users with that (assuming that KDE aims for all people)


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