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== Common Install Hook ==

["DesktopTeam/CommonInstallHook"]
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05-09-30 Frank Niedermann (fbn): I'm adding two ideas I had the last few days, they are not that much Ubuntu only related but IMO they would improve the Gnome desktop: 05-09-30 Frank Niedermann (fbn): I'm adding three ideas I had the last few days, they are not that much Ubuntu only related but IMO they would improve the Gnome desktop:

== Possibility to use keyboard in Gnome dialog windows ==

Many times I try to close dialog windows or application windows with the escape key or I tried to confirm a dialog window with the return key for OK. Sometimes this works, many times nothing happens. Would be nice if at least every window that has a discard/close button can be closed with the escape key.
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== Geographic Location Desktop Service ==

This is an idea in the area of user service enhancements. Not everyone may be a friend of the idea to expose personal data to (some kinde) of public audience. The basic idea is to public where I am currently, based on my calendar or other information sources. A draft version is available as ["GeoLocDesktopService"]. 200600118/["goern"]


== Universal Control Panel ==

A Universal Control Panel Launcher

Currently we throw all user based contorls in to one bag and system administrator tools into another.

The goal of this project is to consolidate and organize these tools for a better and easier user experiance.
http://www.geocities.com/nw15062/ucp.png

["DesktopTeam/Universal Control Panel"]
== Copy queing ==

The ability to que set number of files being copied simultaneously, when a new file is selected to be copied at the same time a current file is being copied it will be qued rather then having another copy dialog window popping up.

http://www.geocities.com/nw15062/Copyqueing.png

["DesktopTeam/Copy queing"]

== Userfriendly filesystem ==

See interesting idea on page [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HideFilesystemStructure HideFilesystemStructure] (or [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/hide-filesystem-structure specification])

== Only One Gnome Panel ==

See interesting idea on page [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OnlyOneGnomePanel OnlyOneGnomePanel] (or [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/only-one-gnome-panel specification])


== Meta Home Indexing ==
Having all saved user files stored in the home directory and let Nautilus sort them out into virtual folders based on type and Meta Data, Virtual Meta Folders could be user created to sort in user specified ways depending on personal categories.

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/meta-home-indexing#preview]

== Fast Language Switching ==
A gnome Applet that would allow a user to switch which language was being displayed on a desktop, without the need to log out and back in again. Such a feature would be useful for trouble shooting in multilanguaged enviroments.


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We'll collect our visions and ideas for the Desktop of the Future over here. But some words in advance: please make sure this page is for

  • coordinating those visions,
  • getting people pulled in to work with you on those,
  • pointing to the specs you wrote (["SpecTemplate"]) and to links how to achieve it.

Let's make this page as organized and well-structured as we can.

Common Install Hook

["DesktopTeam/CommonInstallHook"]


05-09-30 Frank Niedermann (fbn): I'm adding three ideas I had the last few days, they are not that much Ubuntu only related but IMO they would improve the Gnome desktop:

Possibility to use keyboard in Gnome dialog windows

Many times I try to close dialog windows or application windows with the escape key or I tried to confirm a dialog window with the return key for OK. Sometimes this works, many times nothing happens. Would be nice if at least every window that has a discard/close button can be closed with the escape key.

Video projector management

I often see people having some issues with video projectors and their Laptops running WinXP (users have to activate external vga output - some don't know how to do this, sometimes WinXP then has two displays and the video projector gets an empty desktop - some user's don't know how to configure this ...).

It would be nice to have a GUI tool that supports the user on Gnome with video projectors connected to Laptops (or workstations as well). Gnome should recognize if a video projector got connected to the client and ask the user what to do: Do you want to display your desktop to the video projector? Do you want to switch resolution so the video projector can display your desktop correct (maybe the tool can suggest the right resolution)?

A nice features could be to create a brand new virtual desktop just for the video projecton, the normal virtual desktops would be only shown on the Laptop and the new desktop will always be shown on the video projector. That would make sense to have a presentation or movie running on the projector and some other applications that are not for the auidence on the "private" desktops Wink ;) Actually not sure if this is possible ...

After all Gnome would have a way to guide the user in using video projectors - users should not have to worry about how to get it running.

Would be nice to get some feedback on this because I'm not even sure if there really are such issues on Gnome or is it already fine like it is?

Personal Backup with reminder

As I'm using Ubuntu on my Laptop I'm sometimes thinking what would happen if my Laptop gets stolen or I loose it or the harddisk will crash. My personal data (/home) would be gone - happy that I have a backup - made some month ago ... damn. It would be nice to have a tool that reminds the user (if the user wants it) to backup important data. Like the update manager does with the notification area if there are new updates available. The backup reminder could tell the user that the last backup was x days ago and ask if a new backup should be created now or later (remind again in ... ). If the user chooses to make a backup the tool should suggest what to backup (don't know - /home, maybe the dpkg package list, whatever is important ...) and offer some ways to store the backup (burn it cd/dvd, store it on file server, to a directory, ...).

The tool should also have a function to restore the data to a brand new installation because that would make sense after a complete hard disk crash or laptop loss.

Geographic Location Desktop Service

This is an idea in the area of user service enhancements. Not everyone may be a friend of the idea to expose personal data to (some kinde) of public audience. The basic idea is to public where I am currently, based on my calendar or other information sources. A draft version is available as ["GeoLocDesktopService"]. 200600118/["goern"]

Universal Control Panel

A Universal Control Panel Launcher

Currently we throw all user based contorls in to one bag and system administrator tools into another.

The goal of this project is to consolidate and organize these tools for a better and easier user experiance. http://www.geocities.com/nw15062/ucp.png

["DesktopTeam/Universal Control Panel"]

Copy queing

The ability to que set number of files being copied simultaneously, when a new file is selected to be copied at the same time a current file is being copied it will be qued rather then having another copy dialog window popping up.

http://www.geocities.com/nw15062/Copyqueing.png

["DesktopTeam/Copy queing"]

Userfriendly filesystem

See interesting idea on page [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HideFilesystemStructure HideFilesystemStructure] (or [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/hide-filesystem-structure specification])

Only One Gnome Panel

See interesting idea on page [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OnlyOneGnomePanel OnlyOneGnomePanel] (or [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/only-one-gnome-panel specification])

Meta Home Indexing

Having all saved user files stored in the home directory and let Nautilus sort them out into virtual folders based on type and Meta Data, Virtual Meta Folders could be user created to sort in user specified ways depending on personal categories.

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/meta-home-indexing#preview]

Fast Language Switching

A gnome Applet that would allow a user to switch which language was being displayed on a desktop, without the need to log out and back in again. Such a feature would be useful for trouble shooting in multilanguaged enviroments.


Go back to [:DesktopTeam].BRBR [:CategoryDesktopTeam]

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