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They need to change the entire GUI. Desktop metaphors are done. EDIT: For some reason I can't reply to anything anymore...Just redirects me to http://news.ycom
by krainboltgreene 17y ago
They need to change the entire GUI. Desktop metaphors are done.
EDIT: For some reason I can't reply to anything anymore...Just redirects me to http://news.ycombinator.com/r http://news.ycombinator.com/r with a blank page.
Anyways: cookie: Oh man I have a ton of ideas! A lot of them flow well into the touch interface world, but that means they don't work well with the keyboard interface.
For instance, one of my ideas was the infinite vertical, limited horizontal screen. Check out Shoes's STACK & FLOW positioning for some hints.
Radial menus instead of file menus. Also, menus open-able from from anywhere on the application ui.
If I had a decent design station and PS4 I bet I could make some nifty examples.
- cookiecaper 17y agoWhat do you suggest? KDE wanted to change the whole game up with KDE 4. They solicited the community for ideas for months. They still ended up at roughly the same interface and concepts that have always existed for the overall interface metaphor. I think this is just how people expect computers to work now. Of all the proposals out there, I haven't heard many feasible replacements for the desktop idea.
- andybak 17y ago"They solicited the community for ideas for months." Maybe soliciting for ideas visionary UX guru's would have worked out better for them. UI design is a technical art-form not a popularity contest.
- cookiecaper 17y agoRight, but the thing is that nobody could present to KDE an idea that was likely to work out better than the traditional desktop/windowing model.