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It would be such an amazing learning experience for any designer to create a UI/UX for TempleOS. Imagine being given the opportunity to design how OS X or Wind

by MrJagil 12y ago

It would be such an amazing learning experience for any designer to create a UI/UX for TempleOS. Imagine being given the opportunity to design how OS X or Windows should look and feel from the ground up. Linux is obviously another option, but unlike with TempleOS, you would not be treading new ground, and it would be hard to not just evolve the Linux interface, rather than defining it from scratch.

err4nt 12y ago
It would certainly be a challenge given the display limitations of TempleOS the last the I checked it out. I believe the display was limited to <1000 pixels and a minimal palette. Not that you cant create beautifully usable interfaces within such restrictive limitations, but minus all the spark and sizzle of modern UIs I think it would be a challenge to first get a UI designer _excited_ about creating a solution for TempleOS
- DanBC 12y ago
  Isn't the challenge what makes it exciting? Like writing haiku? The seventeen sylables force structure. The work of Susan Kare is held in high regard. I guess the pioneering aspect has gone and it'd be more like carving a pixel-art niche.
  - cmdrfred 12y ago
    I concur, 8bit style art is fascinating to me.
    - err4nt 12y ago
      Video VGA 640x480 16 Color Source: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Demands.html http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Demands.html
Someone 12y ago
I don't see why there would be much of a difference. Having nothing to directly copy makes imitation harder, but it doesn't make avoiding imitation any easier. Also, TempleOS _does_ have a user interface, possibly (I don't know TempleOS internals) technically even more so than Linux, where everything above terminal I/O is an add-on that can be replaced.
normalhuman 12y ago
I think a lot of the appeal of TempleOS is a certain nostalgia for a world where single coders would do something amazing on their own, and nobody knew what "UI/UX" even meant. A more naive time, with less specialization, where people just wanted to create something cool. You can prove me wrong, of course, but why not just create a completely new UI on top of the Linux kernel? The Linux kernel is completely agnostic in regard to user interfaces.

by MrJagil 12y ago

err4nt 12y ago

It would certainly be a challenge given the display limitations of TempleOS the last the I checked it out. I believe the display was limited to <1000 pixels and a minimal palette. Not that you cant create beautifully usable interfaces within such restrictive limitations, but minus all the spark and sizzle of modern UIs I think it would be a challenge to first get a UI designer _excited_ about creating a solution for TempleOS

DanBC 12y ago
Isn't the challenge what makes it exciting? Like writing haiku? The seventeen sylables force structure. The work of Susan Kare is held in high regard. I guess the pioneering aspect has gone and it'd be more like carving a pixel-art niche.
- cmdrfred 12y ago
  I concur, 8bit style art is fascinating to me.
  - err4nt 12y ago
    Video VGA 640x480 16 Color Source: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Demands.html http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Demands.html

Someone 12y ago

I don't see why there would be much of a difference. Having nothing to directly copy makes imitation harder, but it doesn't make avoiding imitation any easier. Also, TempleOS _does_ have a user interface, possibly (I don't know TempleOS internals) technically even more so than Linux, where everything above terminal I/O is an add-on that can be replaced.

normalhuman 12y ago

I think a lot of the appeal of TempleOS is a certain nostalgia for a world where single coders would do something amazing on their own, and nobody knew what "UI/UX" even meant. A more naive time, with less specialization, where people just wanted to create something cool. You can prove me wrong, of course, but why not just create a completely new UI on top of the Linux kernel? The Linux kernel is completely agnostic in regard to user interfaces.