On Monday 20 September 2004 12:16 pm, Dave Briggs wrote:
adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
although that may be a bit heavy for such minimalist desires
yes! I suppose it does sound minimalist. Simple might be another way of describing it. I think that even the highly computer literate among us gets used to doing things in a way that just doesn't make much sense. The great analogy of the computer screen being a desktop, with files in folders etc, seems to have been lost in favour of ever more complicated ideas.
Ok even as I type this I can think of about 600 reasons why it might not be such a good idea...but how about-
A task orientated desktop where each (of several clearly defined) task groups is assigned to a virtual desktop.
This is (sort of) how I work now, I tend to leave a web browser running on desktop 1 because I like my browser to be full screen if possible, Email and perhaps chat running in desktop 2 and maybe have some real work going on in 3 or 4
But how about if when I change desktops the launcher menu (and the files/folders on the desktop) change to a particular group of tasks.
So desktop 1 could be a internet/file browsing thing perhaps 2 could be media related tasks, 3 Office productivity and document generation and 4 system administration.
There could also be a sort of root desktop that had everything (although I suspect that people would end up just always using that one)