(Product) "The Desk"

"The Desk"

Design

please ignore the inconsistent iconography and rough edged-ness; credit to Elementary, Solus, and GNOME for the icons

https://www.figma.com/file/cw2b3EqLdfUmcHFUW2Ep2V/Untitled?node-id=0%3A1

Paging WM

Window manager that's broken into rows and windows:

• Rows are horizontal strips of tape that work like conceptual Turing machines and retain position, and are layered on top of each other.
• Each window in a row starts off at full width, can be readjusted.
• Weirdly, this concept is explained very well by variable-width Netflix title selection.

Advanced features:

• "Tile" two windows vertically in the same row. This could be useful if your desktop has a massive screen.

Blessed methods of input w/ quirky names pending:

• Touch w/ optional keyboard.
  • Touch is the primary navigation input.
• Keyboard | trackpad
  • Trackpad is the primary navigation input.
• Trackpad | keyboard | mouse
  • Trackpad is the primary navigation input.
  • Mouse is used for precision input tasks.
• Mouse and keyboard.
  • The default that users are used to, so it's multi-tiered.
  • If you don't want to learn our interface, you can get around okay just clicking icons on the Dock. You can even click on the dividers to resize a window or right-click to split a screen. Nothing should prevent this.
  • If you're a power user, this is all you need. You can use the keyboard commands to operate everything and use mouse for precision / app-level input.