Among the "funny ideas" I had for Clicker, many has echoed in other's mind and some eventually got implemented here or there.I won't call myself as "spolied inventor of tags", of course. I'm not. Though I have to admit tags are 100% aligned with what'd have pushed for Clicker if I had any resources to make things move by just pushing them.
Now, let's have a look at the box #7 of this "clicker desktop mockup" I made up somewhere near 2K++ ... the "one-key-command-line" for quickly spawning things is now mainstream ... Even Windows has it (or at least as some plugin) where you type [ESC]word[ENTER] to search and launch your report editor rather than crawling through clobbered menus.
"Incoming" (last imported documents) and "favourite" meta-folders are of lesser significance given we've got the "download history" window of Firefox. But let's check out that box #7 ... It was claiming "users do tasks, more than they use applications". That thing is starting to change as well, the welcome panels of Thunderbird 3, Wireshark (Lucid release) and K3B (a while ago) being an obvious example of it. They also claimed "a task is performed using a collection of tools operating on a collection of documents". We haven't got anywhere near that so far, afaik. Do I want to integrate something to the wonderful Tomboy application ? I have to learn C# ... Do I want to have Gimp able to learn new key combos for filters ? I bet I'll have to dig into some GTK+ and maybe some scheme or Python would help me.
Yet, all I'll be doing somehow is moving boxes around, connecting wires between blocks of code, etc. This is something that should be as easy to do as writing HTML, but there doesn't seem to be any Hyper-Desktop Markup Language around.
-- edit -- Btw, I was about to attach a picture in a thundermail while thunderbird crashed at me because I was also moving directories around. *sigh*. Long is the road.
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