On 7/17/06, Cocoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/17/06, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well at this level its ok. But the learning curve is still steep and > every now and then you get confused right? You have to pause and think > . I think people want to go fasterthan theygo now. Thats a major > point. The ui needs to change. well people are developing better UIs. remember 3d windows and all that?
yes i remember i was one of them too but i realized its not scalable. 3d uis are not the answer. i have tried it. it more complex than 2d wimp. and the vendors have patent locks on the apis and hardware all over the place. the processor specs are open but the gpu specs are not. they are processors right? doesn't make sense to me. the ogp projects offers hope but then i think 3d non wimp uis are only for special uses. but right now a framebuffer bigger than 128mb can be enough for some ui things nobody have ever seen. somebody has thought about it but steve jobs thought that the xerox wimp was better. i think time has proven him wrong but thats just my opinion.
blackbox has that minimalist appeal that gives it the right amount of gui and commandline power.
well blackbox is just a window manager. i would rather go deeper than that and remove the distinction between applications and make the document the main feature.
> I use vi and bash because i dont have a choice. Its fast and im used > to it. But i hate to open multiple windows for each file i edit. Maybe > there is a way to access multiple file effortlessly without switching > windows? Opendoc? tab windows. i find tab browsing for example to be more efficient that having multiple windows open. but when browsing file system, having multiple folders opened in different windows is much more efficient. especially when dropping and dragging files between windows. > I use ion by the way and the application combination i have is pretty > much complete. its i like it but thats only about 25% of the way. > > Funny how those macs bootup much quicker than our gigahertz > processors. They used what... 8mhz processors? my mac is intel core duo. i cant comment though on the old ones, as i haven't been a mac user that long. it boots faster than my linux box i think because of it doesn't use bios (efi - extensible firmware interface), which could be a wrong factor all together and os x doesn't load everything at once. networking only comes alive for example after logging in.
i was referring to the early macs sorry. actually the booting animation is just a placebo. according to developer.apple.com. thats because of launchd. its a very cool concept. i think whole open source world should adopt it. but how long does openfirmware run before it runs bootx? in pcs its the bios thats slow. init replacements can be made to display the login window in less than a second with an fbdev ui. linuxbios is cool but its difficult with the stock motherboard/chipset configurations available now. its a patent minefield.
> > It also works fine in busybox form. except when you have both wireless > and wired interfaces it will get confused. > > IPV6 actually have zeroconf capabilities. tell me about it.
the ipv6 nodes in a network talk among themselves to agree on the addresses. i understand ipv4 zeroconf stateless address assignment is more like a slugfest. and its designed for small networks only. apple almost had a patent lock on the whole spec. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
