The Amazing Rotating Desktop System
Sep. 5th, 2006 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyWhile I was in the shower, I thought of a UI that I'd really like. I'm sure that I'm not the first person to think of it, and therefore there must be a working (FSVO) implementation out there for X-Windows* - I'm hoping someone can point me at it :)
So, when my PC isn't being a bitch and exploding horribly, I have three monitors. What I'd like is for whichever of the three desktop areas the window with the focus is in, to be on the centre screen. To my mind, the obvious way to achieve this is to treat the desktop as a continuous strip that loops around and re-attaches to itself 'behind' the screens, and then to spin the loop around in the required direction each time you want to change desktop. I'm not sure what the best way to switch desktops is - going to the left screen and clicking on an application would mean chasing it back to the centre screen again, which is obviously too much mouse work. Mouse gesture to roll them around maybe? And a keyboard shortcut, of course :)
If it doesn't already exist, someone should write it for me ;) As noted in the title, you could call it TARDS, which is fun. Or I'm sure the acronym could be bent to fit TARDIS, for more geek cred.
* I'm going to take a wild guess at Enlightenment, given the vast quantity of bells and whistles that particular window manager had collected last time I was using it.
So, when my PC isn't being a bitch and exploding horribly, I have three monitors. What I'd like is for whichever of the three desktop areas the window with the focus is in, to be on the centre screen. To my mind, the obvious way to achieve this is to treat the desktop as a continuous strip that loops around and re-attaches to itself 'behind' the screens, and then to spin the loop around in the required direction each time you want to change desktop. I'm not sure what the best way to switch desktops is - going to the left screen and clicking on an application would mean chasing it back to the centre screen again, which is obviously too much mouse work. Mouse gesture to roll them around maybe? And a keyboard shortcut, of course :)
If it doesn't already exist, someone should write it for me ;) As noted in the title, you could call it TARDS, which is fun. Or I'm sure the acronym could be bent to fit TARDIS, for more geek cred.
* I'm going to take a wild guess at Enlightenment, given the vast quantity of bells and whistles that particular window manager had collected last time I was using it.
