>>>>> "TB" == Tathagata Banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux India
>> Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LIH]
>> Re: Linux for desktop ?? Date: 30 Jan 2002 11:32:53 +0800
>> What, in your opinion, would be a new UI paradigm? A 3-D
>> world? Most of the desktop environments around (kde and gnome
>> are not just 'window managers') are going the same old MacOS /
>> Doze route. Because it is what the herd wants, and is most
>> familiar with.
TB> as far as gui -s go, i think the so-called 'wimp' (short for
TB> 'windows, icons, mouse, pointer', i believe) is fairly
TB> basic. visual interfaces to the workings of a computer are not
TB> practicable without a minimum level of abstraction: things on
TB> the screen representing files/functions/locations inside the
TB> machine. thus we have icons (in the gui sense of the term). we
TB> need some way of interacting with them, and it will generally
TB> be agreed that a simulation of the way in which we ordinarily
TB> interact with real-life things - pull them, drag them, hit
TB> (read 'click') them, open them - is the most intuitive. thus
TB> we have the pointer and and something to control it with, the
TB> mouse. however, i don't think the relationship between the
TB> pointer and the mouse is very intuitive. i still remember the
TB> first time a saw a mouse, and found it wonderful and
TB> incredible that its horizontal movements corresponded with the
TB> other's vertical ones, and it was all very difficult to
TB> coordinate. look at the way a new computer-user holds and
TB> handles the mouse, and you'll see what i mean. so however
TB> innovative a new gui is, i don't think it can bring a paradigm
TB> shift. after translucent windows we shall have quivering
TB> taskpanes and singing start menus, and then perhaps windows
TB> that rotate on their axes and show us their backsides, but the
TB> basic idea will be the same. but that is about gui's. other
TB> ui-s are coming in, like bluetooth and voice recognition,
TB> which i belive will soon be mature enough to enable the
TB> creation of household robots.
As far as new UI's go, anyone read Vernor Vinge's _The Peace War_?
Gives a good idea on what UI's of the future may be like (direct
connect to the brain, documents become memory, local documents become
short-term memory, finding becomes remembering, etc). Some memories
are slower (specially if you're on a dial-up ;-) but in effect your
mind is enlarged by the size of the network you're connected to.
I doubt if it would work, since most men would end up filling 99% of
their local memory with pr0n JPEG's and MPEG's anyway. *Sigh* nice
concept, though.
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
It is the mind that moves
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