Lalo Martins wrote:
Yes. It is interesting to read, that you work the same like me. Also most collegues of mine work the same way. As far as I read, this is one of the strenght of PicoGui, that it has no overlapping windows. So why go away from it. Is it not a strength, but just a shortcoming. Didn't you want to keep us away from featureism? ;-)It is *not* correct to refer to overlapping windows as "desktop-style" and PicoGUI's as "PDA-style". The non-overlapping mode of PicoGUI is perfectly fit for desktops, and in fact it is *better* than overlapping. Heck, I'm looking forward to (and working on) using PicoGUI as my desktop, and I will as soon as it has enough tools for me to do my work.In real-life practice, I *never* have seen anyone using overlapping windows for real work. Most people use one single "maximized" window at a time, others (when there is legitimate need to have more than one app or set of data readily available) use "tiling" (spreading the windows so that they don't overlap). Except for dialog boxes, overlapping windows are extremely confusing and unintuitive.
One very fine example of a "real life" and non PDA usage of not overlapping windows is the EPOC OS, which is not only used in Psion organizers, but also in industry and on Psion notebooks. It's usage is very natural in that it does not again implement the old style desktop paradigm of a user interface, but goes back to a fullscreen on. Each person can just concentrate on one (main) applciation at a time. The application can for shure do what it want with the screen.
BTW, did you ever see overlapping windows in any of the terminals you see for buying tickets, get tourist information etc.? Why should this then be good on my desktop computer?
Peter, please see this as a "power" and not as a shortcoming. Also see, how happy many people still are with character mode applications. This power does not come from the restriction to characters, it comes from the the way how simple and clear they are to use.
The only thing I'm not so satisfied with in PicoGUI is the kind, how the not ruinning programs are presented on the screen. These "rolled up" windows. I better would like to press a button on my keyboard and have a menu coming up, like the <ALT + TAB> in windows and have the not running windows away so long. Or additional a button somewhere on the screen to click with the mouse alternatively.
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Martin Doering
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