The Extensible Timeline-Like Desktop works like a rolling paper. It allows you to always have a clean desktop without any icons on it, yet keep always focused on what you have to do NOW, with quick access to history.

Simply slide-off the past desktop icons from your screen (say, by a mouse center button motion from right to left) to get more desktop space.

Want to go back to what you had been doing before? Just slide it back (say, by a mouse center button motion from left to right) to look at your previously added icons.
-- Inyuki, Dec 25 2011

Cool idea
-- rcarty, Dec 25 2011


Like in Android?
-- DIYMatt, Dec 25 2011


[DIYMatt],

Yes, but with "unlimited" amount of new space for icons, and possibility to slide back to look at the previously added icons.
-- Inyuki, Dec 25 2011


This is really just "workspaces", albeit with a cool user interface idea.
-- phundug, Dec 26 2011


// This is really just "workspaces" //

"workspaces" <---> "(this idea)", is like "Natural numbers" <---> "Real numbers"

+ the interface.
-- Inyuki, Dec 26 2011


[+] I've envisioned something like this for a modernized CL shell interface: enhanced to add sort/filter parameters for display, keep the command lines for the active process forks on the screen ("taskbar" functionality) until closed, etc. etc. tres cool.
-- FlyingToaster, Dec 26 2011


[21 Quest], but you cannot add potentially infinite number of the fences in Fences. Eventually they will fill up your desktop, hidden or not...
-- Inyuki, Dec 26 2011


[21 Quest], also, Fences doesn't provide a timeline-based organization. Fences is just a different idea, which could be combined and work together with this one - you could create many fences on the long roll of the timeline-like desktop as well.
-- Inyuki, Dec 26 2011



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