发明名称 ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT TOOL
摘要 A method for providing an activity management tool includes receiving a user request for an activity overview, and identifying installed applications and open windows of the installed applications. The method further includes presenting an activity overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area. The first area includes visual indicators of the installed applications. The second area includes the open windows of the installed applications, where the open windows are resized and positioned in such a way as to be simultaneously viewable by the user.
申请公布号 US2016098159(A1) 申请公布日期 2016.04.07
申请号 US201514875552 申请日期 2015.10.05
申请人 Red Hat, Inc. 发明人 McCann William Jon;Perry Jeremy Gray
分类号 G06F3/0482;G06F3/0484;G06F3/0481 主分类号 G06F3/0482
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主权项 1. A method, implemented by a computing system, comprising: displaying, on a screen of the computing system, a currently active window of one of a plurality of applications installed on the computing system, and a menu bar comprising an activities menu bar item; receiving a user request for an overview of activities available to a user on the computing system in response to the user activating the activities menu bar item on the menu bar while interacting with the currently active window; in response to the user request for the overview of the available activities, identifying, by the computing system, the available activities pertaining to the plurality of applications installed on the computing system; identifying, by the computing system, open windows of the installed applications, the open windows comprising the currently active window; transitioning, by the computing system, from the displayed currently active window to a desktop environment represented by an activity overview graphical user interface (GUI) for presenting the overview of the available activities, the activity overview GUI having a first area and a second area, the first area comprising visual indicators of the installed applications on the computing system, and the second area comprising the open windows of the installed applications, wherein transitioning from the displayed currently active window to the desktop environment represented by the activity overview GUI comprises including the currently active window in the second area in a resized form as one of the open windows; and responsive to a user request to launch an installed application displayed in the first area that is not presently running on the computer system, launching the installed application.
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