On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Christoph Derndorfer < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Alexandro Colorado > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Christoph Derndorfer < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I just saw this article over on O'Reilly Radar and a lot of what the >>> author says also applies to the Journal: "Why files need to die: Files are >>> an anachronism in the digital age. It's time for something better." ( >>> http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/why-files-need-to-die.html). >>> >>> So while it's still early days I definitely feel that the Journal is >>> generally moving into the right direction, especially with all the new >>> features and whatnot discussed during the eduJAM! summit:-) >>> >> >> I am not purely convinced on eliminating the files paradigm, maybe the >> folders would be a different conversation. But files are well... pretty >> obiquos. Since you seem very interesting in having this paradigm of a >> journal. I wonder if you got inspired out of Zeitgeist project in gnome (I >> think they rename it now to something more normal like gnome-journal or >> something). >> > > Not sure that there's necessarily a direct connection between Sugar's > Journal and Gnome's Zeitgeist but if there were then I'd probably argue that > it went from Sugar to Gnome rather than the other way 'round;-) > > >> I would like to hear your validation of the journal and why is it a good >> idea, and how deep will this change goes beyond the UI and apps to a >> commandline environment. >> > > See the aforementioned article, it really contains most of the reasons why > I personally think that something like the Journal is a good idea. It seems > to be that a stream-like interface combined with a database based backend is > a good combination for today's computing context. > > On an even a broader scale back in Uruguay in early May Bert Freudenberg > pointed out that mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS and now > increasingly even desktop operating systems (e.g. OS X Lion) are moving into > a direction where you're not really interacting with files anymore. > Please also see this article ( http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2011/06/08/new-pony/) which Tomeu Vizoso (one of the early Sugar developers) just shared on Google+, well worth a read! Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [email protected]
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