[haiku] Re: I haven't used Haiku, but from what i have seen, this is my atempt to make Haiku R2 compitable to other OSs when released

  • From: Arnold <arnoldvanh@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:55:16 +0100

2008/12/19 zuMi <zumikkebe@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:07:02 +0100 (CET), Fredrik Modéen wrote:
>> > Maybe there's no deskbar at all until you gesture with the mouse,
>> > and
>> > then it appears right at your mouse location so there's no
>> > "traveling"
>> > to the location of the deskbar.    Imagine doing a clockwise swirl
>> > of
>> > your mouse, and a swirl-shaped dock appears right at that location,
>> > with your mouse pointer in the middle and icons all round it!    A
>> > little magic is not only fun in an operating system, but it can be
>> > a
>> > draw.  And actually, that approach might be pretty practical as
>> > well.
>>
>> Nice one :) if nothing else this could be a option that can be set,
>> we can
>> have a traditional Deskbar, that everyone can find and then you can
>> choose
>> it to behave like Golu and with that there would be an option to
>> always
>> hide until you left click and draw a circle with the mouse.
>
> There is not enough space to place icons or other items around a
> circle, the swirl / archimedean spiral is a better idea, on a 3d
> accelerated desktop it can be a vortex or helix where icons and
> descriptions are placed onto it, and the user can browse them going
> forward/back using mouse scroll
>
> --
> zuMi
>
>

Looks like a game of billiards to me. (Didn't have to sign in to any site)
The Haiku Ball is taking up space that could be used for informational
purposes? Think more Rolodex I say.
Good luck improving this, there is some potential here, but real added
value, I' ll wait and see.

Regards,

Arnold

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