[Design] Re: New Linux desktop features: implications for

[Heikki Toivonen]

David Neeley wrote:

| First, I think there should be interface cues regarding any different
| windows not in view--as to whether they actually have content or are
| empty. Nothing galls me so much

Of course, there is the old fashioned way of drawing things on 2D
surfaces so that we think of them as 3D. You can get a squeeezed view of
two more side of the application that way. And if you add see-through
windows (you should be familiar with this if you have played with Mac OS
X), you can see a shadow representation of things behind your app (or
directly visible area in 3D app). I could easily imagine clicking and
holding a partly visible side and causing the app to rotate by moving
the mouse. I tried a little ASCII art below:

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          +==============+
          | .            |\
left -->  |  . Front     | \
side      |  . . . . . . |. \
          |  . b a c k   |  |  <-- right side
          +==============+  |
           \ .            \ |
            \_______________+

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