On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Ricardo Correa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just thought I'd share this with the list. > > Watch the screencast at http://www.myhippocampus.com/ > > Thoughts?
It's pretty interesting. It actually have many similarities with what we want to implement: - notion of project - spatial management - timeline view - collaboration (you see at the beginning people associated to the project) So it's good to see those ideas are worked on by other people than us :) Other than that, the zooming UI is presented as revolutionary -- I guess the hyppocampus guy never heard of a certain Jeff Raskin ;-) One interesting idea they implemented which I do think is worth working on is integrating webapps with their environment (importing google docs). This in fact open the wider problem of integrating webapps within a desktop such as Etoile. We discussed this a while ago and iirc there was a consensus in making links/url first class citizen -- i.e. think as mozilla's prism or google's gears' desktop shortcuts. While this is certainly enough to launch webapps, it's rather poor for managing documents such as google docs (i.e. if the only thing etoile "see" from such a document is a link, well, that's good enough to access them, possibly share them, and possibly manage them in a limited way within the desktop, but lots more are missed such as the document history). So I guess that what we should really have are translators programs that add to core object the documents and basically present the documents to etoile; in the case of google docs we could use the public api (http://code.google.com/apis/documents/developers_guide_protocol.html, which sadly doesn't seem to include support to query the document history !!) instead of the links (or in addition to). -- Nicolas Roard "Java, the best argument for Smalltalk since C++ " -- Frank Winkler _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
