fred_the_fish Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 Today... I saw the laptop of one of my uni lecturures... its running Fedora 1, but thats not what I'm asking :P The lady in question appeared to be doing something really rather clever - whilst using a rather large screen res to display her desktop, she was able to click on a open document, and it zoomed into a full screen depiction of the document. This was... well... impressive... Now does ANYONE have ANY idea WHAT she could have been using? Please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 do you know what kind of document it was? i'm not sure if this is something openoffice can do or not, but that might have been it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 Well it was an openoffice doc that was opened, but she also did similar with firefox... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 ok, in firefox you can do: View -> Fullscreen (or F11) to make it take up the entire screen (accept a nice bar at the top). i'll have to check OOo when I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 hmm... not quite what I meant. The document was already open, and I could see the text, but when it was clicked on, it sorta "zoomed" - imagine cartoon zoom lines also... and took up the entire desktop. When she clicked off it, it sorta "zoomed-out" (cue cartoon zoom lines again..) and the entire desktop was again available.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Sounds like some kind of sloppy focus, any idea what wm/de? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted May 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 looked like a heavily customised KDE. Her husband is a kde nut, so that makes sense... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
energymedia Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 I know that OSX has a similar feature but not sure what it is called. It allows you to see all of the open apps/docs slightly larger than icons, and when you click on one, it "zooms" into the foreground. The cartoon zoom lines is an acurate depiction. If anyone does know how to make this work with KDE, I would also love to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted May 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 That is exactly what it does! Better sumation than mine :P It looks VERY cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 You can do this using Gnome and Abiword. Abiword has the fullscreen option under the... view menu AFAIK and if you turn it on for a document it stays there. In Gnome Abiword is able to go fullscreen over the taskbars, but with KDE it won't. * I did this with Gnome 2.2 and an earlier Abiword, so can't guarantee it with newer versions of either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Sorry, I just noticed that that wasn't EXACTLY what you meant... but anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 (edited) Hi there, sounds like she was running Expocity (for Metacity): http://www.pycage.de/software_expocity.html It's a free version of Apple's Exposé or rather, a re-implementation of the principles. I don't run Metacity, but might be worth a shot at. Click the "Exposé" link on that page to get some screenshots and movies of Exposé on MacOS. 93, -Sascha.rb Edited May 21, 2004 by nggalai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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