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Infinite panning desktop
This would be the ability to grab the desktop and pan it and everything on it, moving the current view off the page one way and moving more desktop real estate onto the page from the other side. This would be especially cool if it were combined with the ability to zoom in and out in order to display more or less desktop at a time.
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Inappropriate?Holding down the spacebar is already established as a convention for grabbing and pulling the 'field' around - and coupled with the ability to manually zoom (disabling the auto-zoom) it'd make a lot of sense, although you'd run the risk of icons existing off-screen - out of sight, out of mind, but giving the user that choice might be nice. -
Inappropriate?I'm not too worried about the off-screen thing. Many OS's and graphics cards already allow multiple virtual desktops that you can switch between, and this is just a more dynamic extension of that.
For normal desktops, I'd really like to see a hilbert space where panning squishes things asymtotically as they approach the edge of the screen, kind of like a Hilbert space. I think that would be awesome for having a near infinite desktop where you could actually see everything.
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Inappropriate?Hi, I don't usualy reply to these kinds of things but i think your idea is an awesome consept that i think we should be expecting out of system like windows. especialy with a control system like mlti-touch, it was made for this kind of desktop navigation. Dear Microsoft: i would like to be able to move the "Window" around please! I'd like to be able to move it with my finger, and zoom in and out! briliant! like, you know, the multi-touch pinch motion that does what by default? does anybody know? grows the desktop icons or something? lame.
Windows 7 = lame.
Roberts Idea = Awesome!
p.s. Flicks are lame.
