[ge-talk] Feedback on R2 Deskbar Mockup

[Ari Haviv]

On 12/14/06, Michael Phipps <mphipps1 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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


that's a really ugly theme...and you used it just to get that feature?
I guess that's the problem with themes. once we come up with a new UI
feature, all the old themes will be "incompatible"

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.


Clock is important. It's the only app I always need to see all the time. And
you're going to have to deal with tooltip dates, time zones, time formats
and time syncing with atomic clocks

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
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