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Topic: «The virtual desktop - realising its potential » on forum: Feature Requests

mouse
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Joined: 05/07/2009

Posted: 05/09/2010 05:56:19

Virtual Desktops could be developed to allow Windows users to work in a genuinely task-oriented way for the first time.

The current AWM product provides the kernel of what is needed:

the ability to create a selection of programs/tools appropriate to a task, including an explorer window showing a directory containing data relevant to the task). and to name these according to the task they support. (in Virtual Desktops)
the ability to switch to and from this selection of tools and to find them as you left them, with data loaded (in mid-task). (In Virtual Desktops)
proper window and layout control, inc startup window control. (In the rest of AWM)

The following developments would be needed to exploit this potential:

the named selections of programs/tools (representing tasks) and loaded datafiles need still to be there (as you left them) after a reboot.
for each named selection you also need the ability to save 'standard' program selections, loaded datafiles, and window layouts, and revert to these on request.

I guess this could form yet another separately marketable product for actual window tools. Actual Tasks? Corporate sales possible perhaps due to obvious efficiency links?

(BTW I do not claim any originality for this idea - it has a very long history going back to Zerox Parc 'Rooms'. But I have never seen a good Windows implementation which works 'with' Windows to provide it, most attempts have tried to completely replace explorer.exe - which causes endless problems!.)

Also note that the functionality which would need to be added has been proposed by others in these forums, suggesting that users are groping towards a form of task-oriented computing with the current AWM facilities.

Best wishes

Mouse

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