Idea: Virtual desktop

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Sat Dec 30 23:19:57 CET 2006


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
> Koen Kooi wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
> 
>> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
>>> Ole Tange wrote:
>>>> When the desktop is only 640x480 it would be handy to easily change
>>>> between multiple desktops.
>>> I'm not sure what this would be useful for. In the desktop world,
>>> virtual desktops are primarily used for switching between
>>> preconfigured workspaces, which mostly consist out of presized and
>>> -positioned windows.
>>>
>>> OpenMoko doesn't support windowing, all applications open full-screen,
> 
>> What about modal windows and dialogs?
> 
> We have full-screen dialogs, half-screen dialogs (confirmation
> stuff) and (I'm not sure yet where we really want to keep those or
> rather use the common statusbar at the bottom for those as well)
> short-lived information popups (think HildonBanner).

HildonBanner is the infoprint stuff, or in GPE speak 'gpe-what'?

regards,

Koen
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFFluYNMkyGM64RGpERAimuAKC0mA/Dmi6UGc6NuAZW2AviUQVSzQCeIREd
son6WIUZ8I9D7d0rlinIFbE=
=8mo8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----




More information about the community mailing list