On April 22, 2005 11:05, Trever Miller wrote: > Perhaps we can get deeper into this area over beer at a pub night > sometime? (Does CLUG have those?)
usually after meetings, yes. looking at the weather outside right now i could do with a pub night on a nice deck somewhere tonight, though. hum... perhaps i will =) anybody wanting to join would be more than welcome. perhaps the ship on 17th after work ... yeah.. =) > > the innovations that people are working on for the Open Source desktops > > are mind blowingly cool and useful. we've caught up on the base desktop, > > are catching up with the applications and are moving ahead in terms of > > creative technologies. > > I'll be keeping an eye on it over the next couple of years. Hopefully > competition from these inovators will help push everyone, proprietary > and open source, vendors further forward in terms of usability etc. that's typically the way it works, yes. that was the sad thing about the desktop in the mid to late 90s: competition was dead, so nobody was innovating. this has finally changed, and my personal opinion is that it is directly linked to the rise of the open source software phenomenon. > > here's an interesting observation: Apple brought the GUI file manager > > into the mainsteam in 84. Microsoft de-spatialized it in the 90s, and > > that's been the single largest interface change to it in the last 20 > > years. 20 years of file manager interfaces that mimic an original design > > made for <10MHz CPUs, tiny screens and a few hundred files. crazyness. > > The volume of information, in number, sizes, and types of files is just > staggering these days. Flinging tv episodes around the lan and the like > for starters. Some breakthru in ways of managing this cornucopia of > digital multimedia will eventually come. Can't wait :-) one of the things we're tackling in the Appeal project is new ways of handling huge amounts of information and files, from basic interface elements all the way up to more powerful storage semantics. it's a lot of fun and very exciting stuff. -- Aaron J. Seigo Society is Geometric
pgpLXaWorSybd.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
