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Bug 315998 - Improve startup notification of launchers (kill ugly frames)
Improve startup notification of launchers (kill ugly frames)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 479562
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-11 15:51 UTC by Amadeus
Modified: 2008-02-11 15:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
A screenshot of the gDesklet StarterBar (48.53 KB, image/png)
2005-09-11 15:52 UTC, Amadeus
Details

Description Amadeus 2005-09-11 15:51:51 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
Comment 1 Amadeus 2005-09-11 15:52:51 UTC
Created attachment 52086 [details]
A screenshot of the gDesklet StarterBar
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2007-05-25 21:32:43 UTC
Sorry for replying so late. I'm not sure what you want to see? Does the starter bar do something special?
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2007-06-15 15:49:46 UTC
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!
Comment 4 Amadeus 2007-06-15 16:01:02 UTC
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 =)

Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2007-06-15 16:16:47 UTC
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?
Comment 6 Amadeus 2007-06-15 16:49:26 UTC
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 =(
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2007-06-15 16:55:29 UTC
(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.
Comment 9 Vincent Untz 2008-02-11 15:41:51 UTC
Patch in bug 479562.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 479562 ***