Déjà senti

I’ve just submitted a GUADEC talk proposal for Gimmie.

Browsing the awesome proposals that have already been sent in, I found one on Desktop Tiles from JimmyK which reminded me of an idea I had while travelling in Brazil some time ago…

Subject: forgot
From: Balabhadra Graveley <orphennui@…>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:13:02 -0800 (PST)
To: Nat Friedman <nat@…>

Forgot to tell you that I have a dashboard/desktop proposal…

Think about encompassing gui constructs that are quickly and easily associated with what we care about (currently Files and People) used everywhere on the desktop (inside evolution, gaim, etc, and exploited by dashboard, also possibly a Files and People menu on the foobar)… to provide access to all the actions you can perform on a File or Person (accessed from a right click menu), and optionally providing some pieces of contextual information which also have associated actions…

I think this could make the desktop more useful by providing a common & pervasive actions list, consistent dnd…

And I think it could clean up the dashboard gui by organizing the things which are related to people and files into what would become warm and friendly desktop gui constructs (that could grow to encompass Projects, Communities)

Also, I currently have three wounds on the lower half of my right leg, between nickels and quarters in size, infected with some unkillable jungle virus.

-Alex

This never turned into anything of course, but really interesting to witness how ideas recycle nevertheless. I can’t wait to see the talk.