[ge-talk] Feedback on R2 Deskbar Mockup

[Michael Phipps]

It looks about a million times nicer. I suppose it doesn't show a 
lot/enough maturity on my part, but I can actually picture that on my 
desktop, compared to the paint only version.

I think that it needs some thought as to the indication of running vs not 
vs crashed. In this latest demo, I see BeMail (no border), 
Workspaces/People (with a border) and StyledEdit (light grey with border). 
It is not intuitive which indicator is which.

One thing to consider is "drawers" - icons that represent multiple apps. I 
used to have this setup running with LiteStep ( 
http://www.kenjin.net/images/litestep/screenshot_wood.jpg ) although that 
theme is different than the one that I used. The "drawers" function a lot 
like folders do in the Be menu... I had Internet, Office, System, for 
example. It was nice because it was, literally, 2 clicks to any application 
in the system.

By the way - LiteStep is probably the most theme happy tool out there, and 
every time I look at it, it reminds me why themes are a bad idea. ;D

Another thing to consider is what makes the clock so special? I mean - just 
because Microsoft chose to put one in there, and Be chose to copy it 
doesn't mean that it is a good choice. I was thinking that you could have 
the toolbar act as a BShelf for any replicant that wanted a X x Y space. 
Clock could be one, but so could a hundred other apps.

Brian Hague wrote:
> I've modified the deskbar, and made a more "proper" very large version
> (should be just about the largest size allowable. I did this all with the
> help of autocad (my other love) and... you guessed it... paint. Since it
> took a while to explain the disks icon, I decided to leave it off, since it
> would just let more confusion reign...
> 
> http://haiku-os.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=7309#7309
> 
> Hope you enjoy!
> 
> alphaseinor