Capabilities of ObjectBar 2, and beyond
Friday, June 3, 2005 by vaiovann | Discussion: ObjectBar
I can say that when I first came upon ObjectBar my geeky core skipped a beat. It seemed like I could easily script the taskbar like enviornment I had always envisioned as bieng "perfect". This was subjective ofcourse but then again my findings of the OB programming side were aswell. Now I'm not saying that OB really even left me feeling short sided, just that my dreams were set in a direction the OB wasnt meant for. Lately with all the news into OB v2 my "perfect" idea of the ultimate intuitive enviornment has re-surfaced, and with it a slightly more enlightened idea of what to expect. This post is essentially just a concept I hope can be fufilled with this new release. I have attached two images, they are (to my best journalistic abilities) either some sort of re-designed shell for the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep enviornment or possibly a direction Rhapsody was moving. For now I'm focusing on the top menu bar, and the object's it appears to keep. First is the order it takes, the top level OS services/application etc... , then the user account followed to it's left by the active or choosen application. This to me seems a rather logical way of arranging a menu. I know that's quite relative but my idea still stands, a heirarchical method of your place in the OS. Second and more importantly is the transfer of standard text based, top level, application/enviorment services. Much like the Mac OS Finder but this seems icon based. Another icon sitting unobtrusively farther the the right appeaprs to be a standardized print icon (maybe it shares data with the choosen application and prints anything relevant or selected?) The red presentably obvious icon further the the right is a quit or close button (if this was the only way of totally quiting an app then it would be quite hard to accidentally stop anything), and on to the clock. What I would like the see in ObjectBar 2 is something that can emulate this, maybe transfer a definable set of menu items and turn them into the icon of your choice, aswell have some sorft of widget that is a clibpoard or proxy to print service's. Many of you might say I simply need to get of my a$$ and do something about it, but this post is more of a hopefull, and maybe theoretical topic on what OB 2 is capable of. Or more importantly what might need to be integrated.
VaioVann.
VaioVann.
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Reply #1 Saturday, June 4, 2005 10:24 AM