From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:23:53 +0300 Message-ID: From: Sergey Kish To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea Topicbox-Message-UUID: ff70570e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Personally I find that interface awful. One third of the place occupied by WIMP controls. Tasteless. PS: Gestures requires no controls. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > hi, folks, > > please, look at this: > http://www2.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/ubuntu_widgets.png, and share your > opinion; > the main thing is the right-hand side with the slider > and let's talk about this screen-pixels-saving idea > the window borders are thin, but still active, mainly from outside of the > window > scrollbars are thin, too, with a "pop-out" slider tool > could be improved, of course > however, not a bad idea, IMHO > I always wanted to get rid of all that pixel-consuming stuff... > another way would, perhaps, be using keyboard for vert/hor scrolling, but I > feel that there's a strong opposition to using kb for anything else than > character input... > > best regards, > ++pac >