Zeitbutton (More realistic than the Nautilus stuff)
So David C dented about Zeitbutton
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Funny thing is … We support this functionality already as in “Get files commonly used with the other files”
In this case it would be “Get files most used with Recently Open Files”… It is just a WM hack as far as I know…
You can test the functionality with Zeitgeist(trunk) and GAJ(trunk) by right clicking an item in the journal and asking for “More Information”….
Lets make it happen… Thanks Dave for the inspiration…
Just had my first real experience with the More Information thing. Seif, you are a genius!
I can’t say I would be a huge fan of a related files button in the window manager, though, at least not as a long-term solution. I can see this growing into a fad where, at the end of it, we have a Related Files button, a Copy button, a Cut button, a Send To button, an Add Emblem button and a Bzr Commit button all crammed in to the right and terrifying people.
On the other hand, we could start off way more abstract. There could be a nice button representing the current file in the title, preferably with a shiny icon for consistency with the file manager. It could be fed by some common window property everybody could support.
Maybe draggable, but more importantly extensible through actions like a file manager. Zeitgeist could plug in to that, a Send To could plug in to that, etc.
…Joy!
There’s even somebody on the FreeDesktop mailing list, right now, working on a specification for standard flle manager actions extensions.
(Okay, it’s still a bit ugly because everyone and his dog has that stupid File menu, but we’re getting there).
Blueprint for UDS for Lucid + 1?
@Dylan: Thanks for the compliment. I think you have some nice points there that deserve a blogpost of their own! Maybe u can write one and i will link to it!
@Rick: Agree Lucid+1 it is
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The mockup makes me almost want a log in the calculator so you could see calculations you did around the time of those documents.
The log would need to be really obvious to see and enable/disable for calculations
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I have to say that I’m more than a little skeptic.. Why, why, why would I open files from my calculator? I use that for math..
I agree that like most Zeitgeist related stuff, this all looks fancy, but it will probably not make it in the main stream. It would be cool to devote resources to making sure Zeitgeist is integrated in the right places (in discussion with the right people). Instead of plugging Zeitgeist in ‘random’ applications/locations, would it be possible to think about a centralized way that users would be using Zeitgeist, and how it fits with the whole 3.0 stuff that is going to happen (maybe this is already happening, and don’t get me wrong, I like reading about cool fun stuff
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I fully agree with you… As I said we do provide a DBus Interface for interaction and soon enough libzeitgeist will be there too. But i would like to have some standard widgets that make use of these functionalities and tracker ones
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that’s, like, awesome. please do it.
I hate people stupidly trying to get rid of the menu without any decent universal replacement for it in sight.
@ Seif
“Lets make it happen… Thanks Dave for the inspiration…”
Thank you Seif and your team for your awesome work!
@Kim
“I have to say that I’m more than a little skeptic.. Why, why, why would I open files from my calculator? I use that for math..”
I used a calculator in this mock-up to illustrate the potential of the design. I firmly think this use of Zeitgeist can be a hit and bring real innovation to the desktop, “even” on the calculator.
@rtaycher:
While indeed just blanket getting rid of menus is a bad idea, a lot of applications have menus that don’t need them. Just look at the calculator; it has three menus, and they could easily be replaced by two buttons (One for preferences, and one for help). The View menu’s options would go into the preferences dialog; and the copy-and-paste items in the calculator menu aren’t needed (You can get at them by right-clicking in the calculator view).
A lot of other applications don’t need menus either; indeed, the only applications in the default Ubuntu\Gnome install that actually need a menu may be OpenOffice, Gedit, and the terminal.
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