From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201107121726.29100.dexen.devries@gmail.com> References: <201107121631.05140.dexen.devries@gmail.com> <20110712155612.5b174266@lahti.ethans.dre.am> <201107121726.29100.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:02:03 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Peter A. Cejchan" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001517740b12c6aec304a7ed2701 Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea Topicbox-Message-UUID: 00cbbc10-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001517740b12c6aec304a7ed2701 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > in other words, all the widgets (menus included) of an app turned into margins when mouse's /not/ over those widgets. yes!! i agree 100% last night i couldn't sleep for a while, so i tried to imagine acme as a whole screen ui, w/o any taglines, ctrl-boxes, and sliders... however, i ran into problems soon... made some sketches, but ended up with acknowledging a very clever acme design. Nevertheless, it would be elegant if all the widgets were invisible, in the way dexen proposed.. i hope to see it implemented soon ;-) ++pac --001517740b12c6aec304a7ed2701 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

>=C2=A0 in other words, all the widge= ts (menus included) of an app turned into margins when mouse's /not/ ov= er those widgets.


yes!! i agree 100%
last night i couldn't sleep=C2=A0 for a while, so i tried to imagine a= cme as a whole screen ui, w/o any taglines, ctrl-boxes, and sliders...=20 however, i ran into problems soon... made some sketches, but ended up=20 with acknowledging a very clever acme design.
Nevertheless, it would be elegant if all the widgets were invisible, in=20 the way dexen proposed.. i hope to see it implemented soon ;-)
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