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Hey Everyone!

We're currently beta testing BumpTop with the help of a bunch of select users. Thanks so much for all the feedback, if you would like to be part of the beta please be signup at our website! http://bumptop.com/list

Feel free to submit ideas, questions and comments on BumpTop to this site and checkout http://www.bumptop.com for more info!

Cheers,
anand

So I've made a discussion for trying to figure out what some settings mean, because I'm probably not the only one wondering.
So the first question:
What are camwalls?

To make it easier for BumpTop engineers to see what kind of computer setups/settings people are using/use when they beta test or use Bumptop, list the following so we can make a quick look index and data collection;

Computer Brand Name: (Dell, Mac, Toshiba etc.)
Model: (of the computer brand name)
RAM: (amount of RAM)
Operating System: (Vista, XP, OSX, Linux, etc)
What the computer is used for: (Work, Gaming, Business etc.)

Mine is below:

Computer Brand Name: Toshiba
Model: Tecra M-4 (tablet laptop)
RAM: 2GBs
Operating System: Vista & Ubuntu (Vista is default; using GRUB for dual boot)
Computer Used For: Work, Gaming, School

if there are any more categories that would seem relevant to this, please post them too!

I have been looking for the documentation on Bumptop and I can't seem to find it. Usually these type of things are right in front of me and I overlook them some how. This causes me to take the difficult route in more cases than not.

So since I couldn't find the keyboard shortcuts, I tried to document what I found through experimentation here:

ctrl-. show selected files right-click menu
ctrl-a Select all
ctrl-g grow selected
ctrl-s shrink selected
ctrl-w Close Bumptop

ctrl-p enable/disable debug keys.

-- Debug keys are below --

ctrl-/ enable/disable box texture rendering
ctrl-, clear the desktop !!! bad
ctrl-m windowed/full screen
ctrl-n repositions on/off
ctrl-' filenames on/off
ctrl-l Infinite Bumptop Mode
ctrl-h name selected item
ctrl-\ Optimizations on/off
ctrl-] VSynch on/off
ctrl-[ changes Bumptop background to the grid-view background??
ctrl-5,6 switch between top-down and angled views
ctrl-8,9 Previous and Next photo Frame.
ctrl-0 start Tests.

We all know BumpTop is the future of User Interfaces, but to make it more ergonomic, user friendly, and more "eye candy-ish" with the cool animations, design and pen flicks, some community ideas and input can inspire designers to add more.

List them here, be as creative as you want for it might spark something; I'll begin with mine:

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1. Option for low or zero gravity for the icons, and maybe a subject "planet" they can obit around; for example, maybe I can create a Word Documents planet that all the Word Documents I would have out orbit around the planet.

2. Folders, Cabinets etc on the 3D canvas that would act the same way as a real file cabinet would (maybe multiple for different types of documents) (pretty much; office furniture and supplies that would be used normally in real life in the 3D desktop)

3. A toolbar on one of the walls showing open browsers that can be minimized or maximized with an animation

4. Quick search

5. Hangars on walls; maybe a quick launch or a favorites panel so that documents or files can be easily accessed without having the search through

6. Maybe an underwater effect; as if the 3D canvas was a fishbowl, and the files would float to the floor.

7. House of cards effect; files can be building blocks

8. External devices appear on the 3D canvas and can be dragged etc as well as files dragged to it

9. Maybe if the 3D canvas is square, each face of the square can be used to contain a certain type of file; for example, PDFs on Face 1, Word Documents on Face 2, Music on Face 3, Photos on Face 4, Videos on Face 5, and Games on Face 6.

10. Pens, pencils etc to make notes on the Canvas.

11. Widgets and a widget hotkey

12. Minimize and maximize animations

Feel free to list any of yours and be as creative as you want!