delfick said:
cool :D

knew someone woudl like em

reacocard said:
These do look very nice. I like how there is a visible connection between the app and the device on the first one, and the music player control/info thingy is very cool. The popup on the last one is mathusalem if I'm not mistaken, which also looks very nice. I was skeptical of mathusalem's usefulness the first time I saw it, but this mockup shows its potential very well.

i bet pretty soon we will be able to do th player controls on awn soon

searayman said:

Wow, is incredible how a little tiny person who lives in a unknown city in Argentina and have made a mockup with an idea (or concept) of "how should be the Linux desktop", then, thanks to the internet, can make know its ideas to everybody.

I say this because i have made that last mockup, only with the Inkscape... I know is not stunning, actually i'm not a digital artist, but i really want to show ideas or inspire developers =P

Now that i know someone actually see my artwork i have the desire to improve it, mixing diferents ideas (maybe not from my own).

I hope you like it.

exodus said:

TELL ME YOUR IDEAS, WHATEVER IT CAME TO YOUR MIND, VISUALLY SPEAKING, USABILITY, ETC.
(Or gnome will appear to you at night )

My ideas?

1. Since the "new dock look" is pushing into the desktop, I would like to see this metaphor of depth applied to windows as well. Turn the windows into hollow boxes, with the icons for folders, applications, files, etc. residing on shelves inside of the boxes. This could easily be achieved by taking the look of the angled dock and reapplying it as the angled bottom of a box or shelf.

2. The layout engine is now being integrated into the desktop shell as the widget/gadget engine craze is happening at the moment (its all over the place: Google Desktop gadgets, Adobe AIR + YourMinis widgets, Sun JavaFX, Windows Sidebar gadgets, and so on). While the corporate aspect of this current craze is suspect, I still think that it would be awesome for application development on the Linux Desktop if more resources were invested into widget engines, incorporating such standards as SVG, CSS, OGG, etc, so that the normal web designer will be able to create his own specialized web browser or media player. This can be paralleled with Apple's Dashboard and Opera's widgets, if anything.

3. Directly related to #2, I would like to re-mention YourMinis. The way that they allow for you to preview the widget in action in your browser before you copy it to your desktop or blog is something that I'd like to see with Linux desktop applications. Just view it from your window, decide if you want it, then say "yes" and pop! out it comes to your desktop.

4. Directly related to #1, I would also like to see these "boxes" show up as actual boxes when in desktop cube mode, popping out of the desktop and float around a hardware-accelerated graphics dream.

Anyway, to be honest, the whole "window" metaphor is boring to me. If we want to give the GUI a sense of depth, then why not go as far as carve these depths out of the flat surfaces of the current GUI? Flesh it out, that's my idea.