Okay your desktop. They range from bland, blander, to really sweet depending on your background, right? Game fanatics propably have a screenie of their fav game, right? Well, thats nice and all, but a real gamer wants something, oh, i dunno, more game like?!?

A really sweet interactive desktop! Instead of boring ol clicking on files, you can use this program (not tangible yet, still in my imagination) to make your desktop a sweet interactive game from 2d-side scrollers to 3d action games! its a little hard to understand at first but say you are bored with your normal destkop. Run the program, and to open different files, you can (example, others would be included too) open them in a fullscreen side-scroller! Pretty cool, right? This program basically is a game-lovers desktop. Open-Files (like the kind you open) would be portals to their contents. Collide with a programm that a computer can run, it runs the program! Its just like your desttop, only more action.

errr... lemme think of a good example.

Okay, you set it to, say, 3d FPS

Your desktop is now a 3d FPS! To open files, you run to giant sprite file-icons and it transports you ot the contents of the file, and so forth. Okay, so you need to open Microsoft Word (my example). In this awesome FPS desktop, you can run around shooting randome bad-guys and upgrading to super-cool weaponry and eventually find a giant floating Word icon sprite. You touch it, and your "desktop" is paused while word opens up. When you exit word, you got back to your "desktop". Now you need to open your Harddrive. Roam around a small to large level searching for it, an then touch it, and it "transports" you to your Hardrive, another level and you open up files or run different apps from there etc.

and you know, you could make it a 2d side-scroller too, ANYTHING!

And each file would have its own "level" and such, a random level either chosen or created for that specific file. new files added get their own level and such. and when you get sick of it, find the program that can change it back.

I know it seems a little much, but hey, would you use it?

if your answers no... just say so.

well, I would use it.

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maybs a top-down style thing where u walk to certain "portals" as u described them . (icons) Another method would be a original Donkey Kong style level. this way, you could see all of your options, just climbing to them is the game-ish part of it.

it would be a novelty, and like firemaker said, it would eventually get annoying. thats just the nature of novelties. they get annoying. lol.
so, here's how u can combat that problem:
create the prog so it runs on startup by default. It wont go right to it tho. Instead, the prog pops a message, asking the user if they want to run the (what ever u decide to call this thing), or not.
i.e. : "Would you like to run {name of prog} ?"
then they cna click "OK" or "cancel".

anyway, theres my two cents.

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who's on first?
i know...i just said that! WHO is on first!!!

of course, im about 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 light years away from being able to even DO anything like that, but im glad you thought it would be a good idea.

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Your idea reminds me of my 3d GUI idea thread. But don't worry you didn't copy me on anything.

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if u decide to go for it, ill back u!

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who's on first?
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maybe getting a few cents out of it? lol, j/k!

i just might try it crazyishone.. i juuussttt might...

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Nice try though. Keep working on original ideas.

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really cool stuff.
but I don't like it running in the background. and I find myself running around too much.haha.

I stick with y'z dock, which is essentially the list of shortcuts you find on the new mac OS, you know, with the magnifying and stuff... on pc. heh. too cool, man.

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Still though, it's a great idea.

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