On Jan 26, 12:17 pm, 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?
Not really. Will I stop liking Ubiquity if I 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.
Oh. Ok, cool.
> > 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.
I see.
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