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Published: 2011-09-15 19:08:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 13697; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 121
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Okay so some people have been whining about seeing something more traditional from Slingshot, so I thought about giving Slingshot another view in addition to the regular icon view.Also, wanted to play with what Slingshot could look like in the white menu style that I've been dabbling with lately.
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hasn't been fixed yet, but I think that Slingshot should actually be an indicator and then we'll get the same affect.
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but this creates inconsistency as the others indicators are not popovers
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What is the behavioral difference between a menu and a popover?
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it's an aesthetic difference, not a behavioral difference.
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Maybe all panel menus should be popovers, for consistency.
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This is nice, but I think I'll be pretty happy with it whichever design you use, so just do some user-testing and base it on efficiency and usefulness I guess.
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just to clarify. this is an additional view to the default one, right? for old school sake? I really prefer the HUD look with the menus on top. its much cleaner and intuitive.
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It's an additional view to the default icon one, but we are moving to a more "popover" look and away from the fullscreen look.
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yes, but I like that look, if its the one we've seen in previous mockups. I just don't particularly enjoy the "regular" app menu look. the column in the left doesn't really let it breath. at least in that arrangement.
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I adore this. That would be a fantastic form for Slingshot to take. While I think the black style works better for me, perhaps both could be used, having black or white as a default and a Switchboard plug to flick between them. Themeable Slingshot.
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Is search really necessary in this view? I think it's just taking space here. Without it you can place the view button somewhere else and move everything up, reducing the space between stuff you are actually going to click and the launcher on Wingpanel.
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The search bar is always present. I'm not sure it's a good idea to play hide-and-go-seek with UI elements. Besides, using the search bar always switches to the search view.
Remember also that we're thinking about predictability. Keeping these controls where they are now makes them consistent with where you expect to find them in other apps. If you only have to learn a concept once, the whole OS becomes easier to use.
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And one must not forget that when you have used the system fopr like a year you'll probably have more than a few apps, and then the search bar will come in handy.
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Why the new look for slingshot what was wrong with the way it looked before
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They had said before that they would change it drastically. I prefer this as it allows you to still see which windows you have open on your desktop and you dont have to move your mouse around like a madman if you have a 27" screen
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why not? I love this one.
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Have to agree with Anubeon - Thought that the panel would have black gtkmenuΒ΄s and the gtk applicatons themselves would have white ones.
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I'd be more interested in an implementation of the lenses API and zeitgeist in slingshot. I'm sure it could be integrated with the usual elementaryesque elegance with some careful thought.
What's with the white background in this mock up. I have to confess, that while I like the way you've previously applies this white style to about dialogues and 'reader' applications, I prefer the usual translucent black colouring of slingshot. Still, it's a well put together mock-up. Adding in categories could have easily turned slingshot into a mess - this is far from a mess (though I too, am not a categories man myself - I can see why some are though)
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Eh, I think Unity's Dash is a little overboard. Slingshot isn't trying to be your home for everything you could possibly do. It's just a simple app launcher.
There are plans to use Zeitgeist to sort search results
Well, I've been thinking about moving menus over to the white look. I feel like I can do a lot better job with widgets and I'm really leaning towards it for popovers in general. I feel like with this style the controls really fade back and the content is king. But with the dark style, things like entries and buttons are really loud. I dunno, maybe I can do a better job with them.
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I don't see a necessary conflict here. It would be nice to be able to access a variety of media (not just applications, but files, ebooks, music, etc...) from the same launcher without it looking like complete mess (Unity is getting progressively worse in this regard IMO). However this is the elementary teams vision, and the beauty of open source is that if someone wanted to they could fork slingshot and add such features should they choose to. Alas, I lack the necessary skills and the spare time to cultivate them.
Good to hear that Zeitgeist integration is on the roadmap. Will this integration be limited to sorting results or will there be defined 'recently used' and 'frequently used' sub-headings (if that's the correct term to use)? I imagine, extrapolating from your response to lense API integration, that the later isn't on the cards. Although the utility of defined sub-headings is somewhat lost in light of your plans for search result ranking.
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I want to keep things as clean and simple as possible and keep files out of focus. We're seeing a major shift in the way people use computers from a file-based system to an app-based system. In this model, if you are looking for food, you go to your refrigerator. Likewise, if you are looking for Music, you should go to Beatbox.
I'm not sure how really helpful a recently used header is, but if something like that were to be implemented, I would think we'd do it as a smart filter in this new view and not in the icon view. In this way, you'd get a larger range of possibilities without intruding on other views.
Frequently used doesn't make sense at all for Slingshot since those should be the apps that are in your dock. In fact, it's been proposed a few times that apps in your dock don't appear in Slingshot which would automatically make a frequently used section empty.
I really doubt it. Like I said, Slingshot is an app launcher and that's it. I have no idea what Unity is trying to be, but it's far too complex.
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Unity is very complex and I like the view you have of each application doing one job and doing it well.
Slingshot is an app launcher...dash, I don't know what it is
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Wow, cool, I really like this one!
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It be better if the button looked like this:
___ | O O
___ | O O
___ | O O
Where ___ is a line and O is a square.
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That's a cool idea. You're probably right. I'll do that for the next rev
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