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psifidotos / workflow-project

This is an effort to create a KDE Plasmoid that integrates the main Activities, Virtual Desktops and Tasks Functionalities from Plasma Desktop in just one component.
http://workflow.opentoolsandspace.org/
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New view for an Activity #84

Open psifidotos opened 11 years ago

psifidotos commented 11 years ago

I have found the following link:

http://madsheytan.blogspot.gr/2011/10/kiedy-dobre-rozwiazania-mogyby-zagoscic.html

and I would like a lot to discuss it... I found it very interesting and I am thinking if this could be possible to be supported through the WorkFlow UI as a more Activity specific view...

bmihaila commented 11 years ago

Hi

Yes, it looks very nice and fancy but as I get it it is only a mockup at the moment and not yet implemented. Anyway, even though it looks cool and has a "fluid" feeling in its interface I think it does not scale in the same way that workflow does but it is more akin to the present windows thingy. What I mean is that workflow has the really clean overview grid structure that makes it easy to have a visual map in your mind of how many activities you have and how many workspaces each activity has and where the windows are. From there it is easy to navigate everything and move things around, add, remove things. In the link above I miss the overview of the other activities and how!! the virtual desktops are arranged as it shows me only part of the whole picture. So it is a nice replacement for present windows as it gives more information (the other desktops at the boittom) but I would not use it to organize my desktops and activities. As you say

I am thinking if this could be possible to be supported through the WorkFlow UI as a more Activity specific view...

this could be implemented when viewing one activity or desktop and I think it is the same issue as https://github.com/psifidotos/workflow-project/issues/78 . The thing to think about then is how all the UIs are coming together in the workflow project. As already stated in the other issue I could imagine different zooming levels so that workflow can provide a present windows UI (maybe like in the above mockup) and a grid-like management UI and one can switch between them seamlessly. But I am not sure if it makes sense or they should be two separate things. Same thinkings are going on with Martin from KWin btw http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/04/hitting-walls-a-story-of-present-windows-2/