Concept for a New Program

Had an idea, after talking with some people on IRC, who probably will be the only ones reading this by force of an iron first...



Anywho, the idea is simple... yet very effective... A Gnome applet, click it you get a drop down. In this drop down you can drag anything, Text, images, general files... what have you. If it was a remote image, it would save it to a local cache, or predefined saving point for that tab.



The interface would also support a widget system... imagine three tabs, Web Images, Text snippets, and Mail, on the mail tab there is a widget, this widget checks a pop address by it's own configuration. (The Main program would have a basic modular settings UI, the plugin would control what it fills it with. In this way, it's a unified look, and control. But options specific to each widget, or snippet.)



Think of it like the ultimate visual clipboard for one.



There are some crude concepts at the bottom... (My First Concept UIs!)



Secondly, it's a way to view Widgets in a standardized way... perhaps simply support Gdesklet Widgets?



Also I had thought of preset tabs... You know you can make new ones with whatever you want in it, but you can also add the prefabs for things like:



Beagle- Search at the top results at the bottom.



Gaim Intergration - As far as I know you can fetch information from gaim to set up a nice list, names, icons of people they are monitoring or maybe just a scrollable list of all of them. Whatever works.



Deskbar Intergration(?) - As Deskbar is along the same lines... though completely different... why not just integrate it into a tab? The tabs are called by hotkey or mouse click so a simple ctrl+alt+F5 or what have you would call that tab.



Just some ideas... It's completely modular so there aren't any limits!



I was thinking of calling it DropBox... but hey I'm not able to code the thing it's up to the poor guy who takes an interest.



Note Drops:





Widgets (VERY Crude Examples... Sorry):

Feisty, Feisty, Feisty

I've been reading the specs, keeping up with gobby, and I simply must say it sounds very exciting. Now I've been with Ubuntu since Hoary, and I simply must say this is the most exciting release in the making. I just hope all the addressed specs can be managed.

Also, on that note, I was talking to Amaranth on irc the other day about Beryl, Which I've seemed to leap into conversation about a few times. Anyway, some people have really become interested in Beryl as an accessibility concept. Such as the zoom feature, the more keen eyes have seen a variation of the zoom feature kicking around which actually maintains usability while zoomed. The applications there really have no bounds. some of the features intended to be eye-candy such as the negative plugin which shows negative image on a per window basis, has an application for accessibility.

I'd like to point out I'm insanely for Beryl being included in feisty. I believe it will give beryl the force it needs to really get some user input and pick up a huge following. this eventually will lead to more core developers, and an overall better product.

Not to say they're doing bad at ALL. I really just mean with more people using it more developers flare up to the product and we see an even better Beryl.

In other news, anyone score Final Fantasy XII yet? Hoping to eat up a copy monday, look amazing. As you can tell I'm a big Square fan boy.

In other, other news, I just got World of Warcraft going on the Open source ATI Drivers... using Direct3d! You can thank wine for that, along with the AMAZING people heading up the opensource driver team for Radeons. Albeit slow at a 10-20fps It's a constant entirely playable rate. And I actually removed my old windows partition for it.