Desktop Control

[jlebrech]

I have in idea where the visible portion of the desktop (not overlapped by windows) will have icons moved to it, so that icons on the desktop are always available without having to minimize every window, also the smaller that area of the screen the smaller the icons would resize.

Obviously, somekind of two way interaction using d-sub or such with gnome would be needed to tell gnome which parts are free of windows.

[Fyda]

You mean that Nautilus (the app that draws the desktop window in the standard GNOME desktop environment) would somehow communicate with the window manager (in this case, Compiz) to determine where to position the icons?

Interesting idea; actually, I'm wondering if it'd be practical to move the icons around within the fullscreen desktop window. Why not just have a dynamically resizing/repositioning, composite-aware (ie. alpha transparent), undecorated, non-movable/resizable, specialised "icon containing" window that does its best to fit within these unoccupied regions you speak of? The most basic file manager window already knows how to handle wrapping icons to fit within the window's dimensions...

Or maybe that's not very practical, either...

[jlebrech]

Basically yes, an adaptive desktop. Maybe even one that hides the icons of already running apps, and other nice features.

[SmSpillaz]

I can tell you that GNOME knows the size of your screen and will adjust text size for you if that is the case