GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 315998
Improve startup notification of launchers (kill ugly frames)
Last modified: 2008-02-11 15:41:51 UTC
I would like to suggest an application launcher for Gnome that is like the gDesklet StarterBar or perhaps the one in Mac OS X. Link to the gDesklet StarterBar http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/categories.php?func=gd_show_app&gd_app_id=210
Created attachment 52086 [details] A screenshot of the gDesklet StarterBar
Sorry for replying so late. I'm not sure what you want to see? Does the starter bar do something special?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!
I am not quite sure what you mean by "special". There are the visual differences from the Gnome Panel to the Starterbar, and the functional differences. The Starterbar is much like the Apple menu bar. http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/desktop.html I also think there is an eye candy effect that people tend to like about the Starterbar and the Apple menu bar. I hope we can have a conversation, and I therefore open the bug again =)
Really, you need to tell me what exactly you'd like to have :-) I mean, yes, the panel doesn't look like this, but what part of what is in this screenshot should be in the panel?
Arh, okay =) I would very much like to have a launcher like the starterbar that features: * optional transpareny of the background of the starterbar * when moving the pointer over the icons they bend upward just like if all the icons were attached to a string, and you roles a sphere underneath the string. * Think physics now; When clicking on an icon the icon gets an impulse upward, and is pulled downward by an external force (think gravity). I remember that someone at planet.gnome.org had already made that, and handed the project over to someone else at planet.gnome.org that posed some performance demos of the launcher. I have searched, but I can't find that post =(
Correction. It was this guy, and he still have the videos online =) http://njpatel.blogspot.com/2007/02/oh-thats-smooth.html Videos: http://avant-window-navigator.googlecode.com/svn/tags/web/icon-geometry/ http://avant-window-navigator.googlecode.com/svn/tags/web/launchers/
(In reply to comment #6) > * optional transpareny of the background of the starterbar We have this (click properties on the context menu of the panel, and change the background). > * when moving the pointer over the icons they bend upward just like if all the > icons were attached to a string, and you roles a sphere underneath the string. This is bug 74932. > * Think physics now; When clicking on an icon the icon gets an impulse upward, > and is pulled downward by an external force (think gravity). I'm not sure this is the best way to do it, but yes, we should rework the startup notification.
Patch in bug 479562. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 479562 ***