I am mostly just a user too, but I use ubiquity to write my own commands that make my work on a proprietary web application easier. Mainly automating multi-step interactions with the apps web pages by using a sentence to describe what I want to do or end up with. What advantages will quicksilver give me in this context that ubiquity doesn't?
> Natural language interfaces have been > tried on and off since the 1960's, but they have never really caught > on, and there's probably a reason for that Such as, any references? Are those reasons good enough to never try developing a NLI again? I guess I don't understand what advantages using a separate input areas for the object, action, and (optional) argument will give me over the way I am currently using ubiquity. When I invoke it it is usually to do one specific task and imo, it is easier written as a one liner -> "on my custom site open blah and for field 1 enter and save values of blahblah and field2 values of blahblahblah; than accomplished with actions (mouseclicks, clicking on different tabs and typing in information etc ). But I don't know how quicksilver works since I haven't ever taken the time to install it and learn it. Do you think it would be possible to add in the functionality you are looking for rather than developing a whole new plug-in that just looks and works differently? On Jan 26, 5:17 am, Tom 94301 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm just a user but I like the current Ubiquity interface. > > Have you actually used Quicksilver or Gnome Do? > > > I think their idea was to leverage natural language. > > Sure, and it's a natural idea. Natural language interfaces have been > tried on and off since the 1960's, but they have never really caught > on, and there's probably a reason for that. Quicksilver took off > because it added a bunch of features that made such interfaces work > well, one of them being an unambiguous and intuitive separation of > verbs and objects. > > > Maybe someone else can create another firefox plugin that works more like > > you describe > > Possibly. The problem is that because Ubiquity's interface doesn't > allow some forms of interactions, Ubiquity's plugins will be less > functional and useful than they would be if Ubiquity had a more > Quicksilver-like interface. > > In any case, I was foremost interested in whether this was a simple > "hey, natural language sounds good to me" decision or whether people > had actually done an in-depth analysis and evaluation of different > interfaces. On Jan 26, 5:17 am, Tom 94301 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm just a user but I like the current Ubiquity interface. > > Have you actually used Quicksilver or Gnome Do? > > > I think their idea was to leverage natural language. > > Sure, and it's a natural idea. Natural language interfaces have been > tried on and off since the 1960's, but they have never really caught > on, and there's probably a reason for that. Quicksilver took off > because it added a bunch of features that made such interfaces work > well, one of them being an unambiguous and intuitive separation of > verbs and objects. > > > Maybe someone else can create another firefox plugin that works more like > > you describe > > Possibly. The problem is that because Ubiquity's interface doesn't > allow some forms of interactions, Ubiquity's plugins will be less > functional and useful than they would be if Ubiquity had a more > Quicksilver-like interface. > > In any case, I was foremost interested in whether this was a simple > "hey, natural language sounds good to me" decision or whether people > had actually done an in-depth analysis and evaluation of different > interfaces. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
