[ge-talk] Feedback on R2 Deskbar Mockup

[Brian Hague]

Ari Haviv,
The zSnake is a way of traversing the file structure, if you right click on
a drive, then you can traverse without double clicking on folders...

Michael Phipps,

Would it be more useful if we changed to text with an icon (like what is
seen on tracker?) as default? should we make it so the icons can be changed
on the deskbar by the user? That is good insight...

The lack of wasted space is to make a "friendly" interface to beginners,
While allowing geeks like us to get the information we need quickly.

Actually the Red in the menu is to show the program is not responding (and
therefore crashed), the X in the menu on the crashed application is for
killing the application (instead of vulcan-death-gripping-the-ctrl-alt-del
then hunting on what app failed) It's kinda like melding the application
manager with the deskbar.

I'll see if I can come up with a better solution other than sideways text.

Deskbar icons? what deskbar icons... oh yeah... those... hrm... next mockup?

Actually the scrollbar is up against the edge of the screen, but you can use
the scroll wheel to scroll through the applications as well (should be
smooth animated).

>The colors are kind of ugly, but I assume that is part of working in paint.
16.7 million colors, and I pick the ugliest... That's what I get for using
the default set of colors. Just because it's beautiful in Hex doesn't mean
it's beautiful in RGB... Thanks M$
The idea is to have the colors changeable... do we have gradient/alpha
blending?

Everyone I know (in the windows world at least) likes to keep icons in a
certain order. for an example, there is a woman in our company who likes to
keep outlook first, then word, then excel, then our in house POS .net
software. If outlook crashes, then she shuts everything down, and starts
back up. So she goes hunting for the icons in the most recently used
applications (sometimes it's not there...) then she calls the helpdesk to
figure out where it is (start... click... all programs... click... microsoft
office... click... word... click)... I'm glad I'm not on the helpdesk. Most
users only use a small handfull of applications "all of the time". If she
could put (in the right order) Outlook, Word, Excel, and the POS .net app...
on the taskbar, and not waste any more space (like quicklaunch, which she
gets confused with) then she would be set.

Another idea is to blend the color of the deskbar to the non-running
programs so they don't have a border, just the icon sitting on the deskbar
without a background (showing the user that it's dormant) then use the grey
background to show the running application. I haven't quite decided... and
that's why I need some feedback...

The zsnake is there to traverse the file structure... there are a few
changes... listed in the posts... mainly the timing, and duration of the
submenus.

Thanks 1,000,000

alphaseinor

On 12/13/06, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The zsnake idea might work, but what would you use it for? To start an
> > app?
> > Find a file? It isn't a bad technique, but does the average user want to
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> > traverse their files that way?
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> What exactly is zsnake? All I was able to find on the web was some old
> game.
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