Patent ID: 9152299
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: displaying, on a screen of a 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, the plurality of installed applications comprising installed applications running on the computing system and one or more installed applications likely to be run on the computing system; identifying, by the computing system, open windows of the installed applications running on the computing system, 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 running on the computing system and visual indicators of the installed applications likely to be run on the computing system, and the second area comprising the open windows of the installed applications running on the computing system, 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 the user opening a new window of one of the installed applications, resizing, by a processing device of the computing system, the open windows, to have data within each of the open windows and data within the new window be simultaneously viewable in the second area.