Well, if you’ve been following along on my series of posts about my fantasy GeoShell/Desktop/Task Management development projects, you’ll probably be a bit dissapointed by this screenshot but that can’t be helped.
The bottom line is, I really still want to do all the things I’ve talked about over the last year or two, but I’m still bogged down in real life and not making a whole lot of progress. However, I have whipped together a first-draft of my desktop application …
Have a look at that screenshot, and let me know what you think. Imagine you can have as many of those little semi-transparent windows as you want (ignore Miranda and Rainlendar in the corners). Imagine they gravitate to each other when you move them around, and you can stack them, and they snap-to each others edges. They also collapse to their title bars when you want them to, and if they’re stacked, when you collapse/un-collapse them, they act something like the Outlook sidebar, so they all stay visible. Basically, the intent is that you could leave these on your desktop, and summon one or all of them to the top at the press of a hotkey to launch applications, or just copy files to a work directory.
In the screenshot, the icons come from plugins, so you can have any kinds of items you want … the ones in the screenshot all come from a FolderList plugin, so they represent files/folders and you can drag-and-drop things to/from them (and onto the app shortcuts) at will… but you could easily have a ToDo list, or an RSS feed or something …
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Good stuff. Still waiting for the holy grail. For now, I’m using RK Launcher with Geoshell—the closest you’ll come to true OSX dock functionality. It’s very slick—raduking has got the thing nailed, right down to the animations and true dock-style task management. If you’ve not tried it, you should take a look.