This is neat. It should go to GlassElevator for discussion, though.
That mailing list is dredged (manually) for neat ideas and catagorized.
This is just general chat.
>Hello OBOS programmers et al:
>
>I'm strolling over from the Creative team because I believe some of my GUI
>work is at a point where it needs some serious discussion by the people who
>actually might be putting some of my ideas to code. The idea was to replace
>the widgets and enhance the rest. My goal was not to create something new,
>but to update something we all know and love.
>
>Please take a look at:
>http://home.earthlink.net/~agildehaus/obos/concept-v1-wallpaper.jpg (277KB)
>http://home.earthlink.net/~agildehaus/obos/concept-v1-nowallpaper.jpg
>(188KB)
>
>And after you've looked, read below:
>
>(FAQ)
>
>Q: Looks good, but we can't use the icons!
>A: You provide me with icons, I'll put them on this screenshot. The
>copyright notice may be incorrect (should read Palm I suppose), but I didn't
>want to place their name on my work :)
>
>Q: Where's the zoom button?!!?
>A: It has gone to that big place for buttons in the sky, at least for now.
>I have found that many applications don't take into account the location of
>the Deskbar when they are zoomed (and with an Always on Top option, the
>Deskbar covers a portion of the zoomed application as well). If you all
>think the zoom button should be there I'll be happy to put it back, but I've
>rarely if ever used it.
>
>Q: Drop shadows?
>A: Yeah, call me a sucker for them. I realize translucent drop shadows for
>the windows probably won't be possible for R1.
>
>Q: Why is "Network Prefs" depressed on the Deskbar? It's not the active
>application.
>A: Just showing what it would look like if one of those buttons was clicked,
>that is all.
>
>Q: On the DriveSpace Deskbar plugin there are two circular buttons. What do
>they do?
>A: They show the status of the drive. Red means the drive is the boot
>drive, green means the drive is mounted, grey would mean the drive is
>unmounted. Clicking the button will mount/unmount the drive.
>
>Q: I don't like this new file view in the Tracker.
>A: I think it's interesting. It wouldn't be the only view or the default
>view, of course.
>
>Q: Resizing windows ... how?
>A: Windows would be resizable by -all- of their borders.
>
>Q: In what timezone is the time 50:38?
>A: Err ...
>
>
>Have fun pulling my work apart. Look at the widgets, the windows, the
>Deskbar .. that's what the screenshot is all about. Deskbar Plugins and the
>like were just for fun.
>
>Andrew
>
>
