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Hi,
I've watched this film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqcmPJ-oVL0

As you can see in the film virtual desktops weren't set at the walls of the cube but inside it. You could then move files from one wall to another. Files could be sorted in piles and then quickly show ordered. Photos, PDFs could be zoom in and out and sort by moving them. You are able to quickly annex e.g. photos to e-mail or sent them to facebook. When you plug in e.g. pendrive the pendrive icon appears and you can easly copy any file.

Film really worth watching.

Do you think Kwin could have something similar, do you like it?

Please edit edit your post to explain the idea enough that people can understand it without watching the video. You can still use the video as additional information.

ok, i've added some description.

Surely a desktop computer is designed to enable you to make more sense of your data and not keep your papers in a heap. Copying the worst aspects of the physical desktop at great cost seems crazy to me.

Did you try the 3d desktop on windows ? It's useless and hard to use!

But it's nice!

So , a 2d physics desktop may be more usefull.

The demo has a trivial number of files involved. If you wanted to visualise my music or photo collections you would need a compactus... and I can never find anything on my desk

The simple suggestion of putting virtual desktops on the inside of a cube (walls of a virtual room) seems harmless enough to me; possibly even nice as an alternative zoom-out and select visualisation (I've never liked the existing cube switch idea much)

That said, the original work, which is the topic of Anand Agarawala's masters thesis, is receiving considerable commercial attention. (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ ... 041890.htm) I'm not sure how... but I guess that's why I'm poor

One thing I can say I liked: imagine click-dragging files into a plasma widget to upload to various sites. This already happens with the Pastebin widget, but automatically using twitpic from the twitter plasmoid and then tweeting about it automatically would make it so much more invaluable. Just click-'n'-drag...

Also interesting would be e.g. uploading new wallpapers to OpenDesktop.org with the appropriate widget. Dragging a file to the widget could make it ask, "Hey, what're you trying to upload?" and give the options available on the site, then ask for a name, description etc.

Ooo! Ooo! Someone really REALLY needs to make that for the OpenDesktop competition!


Anyway, sorry, I can't vote this suggestion up. What I wrote above is all I really was interested in, and stands outside this idea...

This is a very great idea and would be good to see the latest features and working of it. Hope it meets to the requirements of the user.

IMHO KDE dont need that, you'll spend more time managing the desktop than getting use of it.

Great idea, bad implementation.
I prefer the "perspective plasmoids" so you can integrate them with the wallpaper than this.

A lot of work to get poor desktop productivity

This is a 21st-century version of what Mac OS 9 users called Spatial Finder. I personally don't like it (it is a call for cluttering), but read John Siracusa for an elaborate article on this http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/04/finder.ars.

This is a very great idea and would be good to see the latest features and working of it. Hope it meets to the requirements of the user.