I'd like to be able to quickly glance over all the content updates on my apps. For example, if I'm coding in one virtual desktop, and different friends would send me messages via IRC, and Skype. A widget should notice that there's certain kind of updates available, and I would be able to pull those updates to the current virtual desktop as a preview window. Just by pressing one key I could go through all the updates and quickly interact with them.
I think this would lead to some kind of efficiency improvements, and could be quite neat. Here's the idea in a bit more detailed way: http://personal.inet.fi/koti/egaga/ideas/desktop.html
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I just realized that something even simpler could be handy inside irssi (irc-client). One should be able to go through all the channels in which people have send messages not yet seen by user and return back to the channel she was in, just by pressing one key.
VastaaPoistaI added this idea to http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/comments/bofaz/virtual_desktop_with_quick_content_pull/
VastaaPoistaI was told that there is an application for Mac that supports this: http://growl.info/about.php
VastaaPoistaOperating systems should provide a service layer for notifications and other state. One useful thing would be to ask from OS service that is it ok to show a message that should be seen by user only, and not by a visiting guest, who is watching over your shoulder when you are just showing some video.
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