Now we can (only with high resolution... Ms, oh you...) dock apps with the Desktop and dock them with another app.
But... if we can use Apps in different ways?
- Immersive way, fullscreen like now;
- Docked way, with other apps or with Desktop;
- floatable way?
With "Floatable way" I means Apps could be like gadgets (old gadgets can be dropped), you can put them in the Desktop with the "Snap" action (in the center of the screen could be) and the App could be resized or moved.
So, we could have 3 different ways to use Apps.
And in a desktop computer there could be a "visual multitasking" with those Apps (now you can put side by side one app to another app... two "windows"... a bit limited)
A mockup with the XBOX Live app:
and with the Weather App (tiled, expanded mode and actions):
What about another approach - apps could have another (classic) interface and share the data with their metro counterparts in the realtime.
ReplyDeleteEg. you're reading a message in metro mail client, then you need to switch do classic to do some stuff and there is classic windows mail client opened for you showing the same message. You click reply button, start typing some text. Then switch back to metro app and you can continue your writing.
Yes, but if you are in a tablet? These actions break the "tablet experience" imho.
ReplyDeleteFor me Ms is including the limits of mobile OS in its desktop OS.
Meh.
In Win8 Developer Preview we were able to 'bypass' the high-res restriction. Do you know anything about a similar possibility in the recent CP?
ReplyDeleteHave you tried the "display1_downscalingsupported" solution?
ReplyDeleteYes, I tried that one as well, does not work on my dell latitude d430 :( neither of the known registry tweaks seem to work at the moment. please let me know if you find something else.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, great content, keep up the spirit! :)
My list - what I would change:
ReplyDelete- Allow Metro apps to run in windowed mode (similar to Mac Lion’s fullscreen on/off)
- Allow installation of Metro apps from other sources than the Windows 8 Store – I would like to be able to get Metro apps from AppWhirr as well. Without this the whole ecosystem will lost a lot of it's flexibility.
I think there will be some way to use other Apps bypassing W8Store...
ReplyDeleteI haven't download the Visual Studio but I think we can "test" our apps without passing from the Store (signing/sending etc...) so an App "packet" can be transferred in some ways...
I hope it will be like Android: you build an app > sign > put in the phone | test > put in the market
iOS: you build an app > test it on emulator > send to apple > store + your phone (without the jailbreak)