I use this most of the time. Create spare panel, put shortcuts on it, set icon size to huge and make panel autohide. On 6/3/08, Mark <markg85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > > Hosted it here: > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=82467 > > This mockup shows my idea of a quicklaunch. With today\\\'s > quicklaunch you have several icons always in your screen while you > probably just use a few of them and and wouldn't mind them being gone > when you don't usThis mockup shows my idea of a quicklaunch. With > today's quicklaunch you have several icons always in your screen while > you probably just use a few of them and and wouldn't mind them being > gone when you don't use it. > > What you see. > My idea here is that when you move your mouse to the lower left corner > of your screen that you will get this popup cloud which will show you > the available quicklaunch applications and will vanish once you move > your mouse out of the popup area. > > Is this possible to make? > Deffinately yes! > In compiz fusion you can push your mouse to the upper right corner > that will give you a alternative ALT + TAB so that idea can be used > for the lower left as well. This popup dialog can probably be made in > pure GTK+ only but then won\\\'t have the black drop down shadow > (obviously). > > Why in the lower left corner? > Well, somehow whenever i want to start a application from the > quicklaunch applet i tend to go to the lower left corner for whatever > reason.. so it's probably intuitive (atleast for me) to go to the > lowerleft corner if you want to start an application quickly. > > So what do you think of this mockup?e it. > > What you see. > My idea here is that when you move your mouse to the lower left corner > of your screen that you will get this popup cloud which will show you > the available quicklaunch applications and will vanish once you move > your mouse out of the popup area. > > Is this possible to make? > Definitely yes! > In compiz fusion you can push your mouse to the upper right corner > that will give you a alternative ALT + TAB so that idea can be used > for the lower left as well. This popup dialog can probably be made in > pure GTK+ only but then won't have the black drop down shadow > (obviously). > > Why in the lower left corner? > Well, somehow whenever i want to start a application from the > quicklaunch applet i tend to go to the lower left corner for whatever > reason.. so it's probably intuitive (atleast for me) to go to the > lowerleft corner if you want to start an application quickly. > > So what do you think of this mockup? > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-art-list mailing list > Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list > -- http://scwlab.com _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
