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2009-09-03 , 14:52
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Ah, or is your idea that you'd have some kind of margin (like a book), which a desktop icon couldn't bridge?

That might work. Apparently hildon-desktop is going to be open source, so even if Nokia didn't include the patch it could be made available through Extras.
Yes, exactly! I should have been clearer in adding: the widgets/buttons/text-boxes/etc would not be allowed to breach the boundaries of the two boxes -- they must fit entirely within them.

I love the 'book' anaolgy. We'll hence-forth call it the a book-ui. The idea is that items can fit on two square pages, and these two square pages can be easily oriented landscape or portrait through a simple rotate.

This solution is quite elegant.

... and with that the Book UI concept was born ...

YARR!
}:^)~