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I'm glad Google has identified a need for something like this, but I don't really trust that Google has the right talent to build an operating system. They have

by dcurtis 17y ago

I'm glad Google has identified a need for something like this, but I don't really trust that Google has the right talent to build an operating system. They have serious problems with user experience and interface design (see: Doug Bowman). The mere idea that they are attempting to encroach on an aspect of experience as large as the operating system is to me somewhat scary. I do hope they prove me wrong. But based on their past performance, I am not holding my breath. Also: Google, if you're reading this, please at least make the typography render properly in this OS. You've already failed at this with Chrome, which has some of the worst antialiasing I have seen in a browser (surpassed in crappiness only by IE).

seldo 17y ago
As I said below (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=693339 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=693339): you've not got what they're thinking of as the OS. The browser is the operating system, and the apps are all web apps. The core of the OS is Linux, but the interface is all browser -- you don't install apps, you just type in their URL. There's hardly any OS UI they need to invent that we haven't already seen as part of Chrome itself.
- dcurtis 17y ago
  Not really. You still have to be able to log in, store data, set up parental controls, deal with power management and screen savers and wifi networks, choose desktop backgrounds (assuming they don't force you to use a single tabbed window), choose keyboard/language/sticky keys, define trackpad gestures, accessibility settings, etc... I am curious to see how they deal with this stuff.
  - Xichekolas 17y ago
    My guess is that you will be in a single tabbed window, with special tabs for things like wifi, login, file browser, settings, etc (like Firefox's about:config). At least that is how I'd do it. Just type config:wifi in your location bar to change your wifi settings. Visit config:files to browse your local files, etc. Of course, all of these can be bookmarked by default so the end user can click rather than type. Chrome already does stuff like this with about:memory, about:network, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme#Google_Chrome-specific_about:_addresses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme#Google_Chrome...
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by dcurtis 17y ago

seldo 17y ago

As I said below (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=693339 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=693339): you've not got what they're thinking of as the OS. The browser is the operating system, and the apps are all web apps. The core of the OS is Linux, but the interface is all browser -- you don't install apps, you just type in their URL. There's hardly any OS UI they need to invent that we haven't already seen as part of Chrome itself.

dcurtis 17y ago
Not really. You still have to be able to log in, store data, set up parental controls, deal with power management and screen savers and wifi networks, choose desktop backgrounds (assuming they don't force you to use a single tabbed window), choose keyboard/language/sticky keys, define trackpad gestures, accessibility settings, etc... I am curious to see how they deal with this stuff.
- Xichekolas 17y ago
  My guess is that you will be in a single tabbed window, with special tabs for things like wifi, login, file browser, settings, etc (like Firefox's about:config). At least that is how I'd do it. Just type config:wifi in your location bar to change your wifi settings. Visit config:files to browse your local files, etc. Of course, all of these can be bookmarked by default so the end user can click rather than type. Chrome already does stuff like this with about:memory, about:network, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme#Google_Chrome-specific_about:_addresses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About:_URI_scheme#Google_Chrome...

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