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> I find this sad. It is a sign of lack of innovation in desktop environments. Most of the modern OS developments focus on making things easy and safe. That us
by arka2147483647 4y ago
> I find this sad. It is a sign of lack of innovation in desktop environments.
Most of the modern OS developments focus on making things easy and safe. That usually boils down on removing features and locking down things.
And more generally, there is no gurantee that the new thing is better than the old one.
- torben-friis 4y ago> Most of the modern OS developments focus on making things easy and safe. That usually boils down on removing features and locking down things. Fair enough, but innovation should not necessarily be more complex. See pinch-to-zoom in the first iPhone as an example of a groundbreaking addition that makes things simpler.
- LarryMullins 4y agoPinch to zoom is nice, but relies on a sort of peripheral that most desktop computers don't have. To make a mainstream desktop system, you can't assume the user has more than a keyboard and mouse. And so the usual ctrl + / ctrl - shortcuts for scaling/zooming remain, even though they're usually superfluous to laptop users with touchpads. All kinds of things like that have been added to desktop environments. Things like hot corners to "Exposé" the windows or show all your virtual desktops, gestures for minimizing all your windows or flipping through them. Dragging windows such that they snap into certain geometries for an assisted manual sort of tiling. Despite all these additions, things which Windows 95 didn't have, the typical desktop environment would still seem reasonably familiar to a time-traveling Windows 95 user because the primary input devices are still keyboard and mouse and therefore desktop environments all work the same way, broadly speaking.