On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:16 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:15:53 +1300 > > From: Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: GNOME Usability List <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Usability] Linux Desktop Usability > > > > On Mar 6, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > ... > > > (I'm also hoping someone from Sun Microsystems - gentle nudge - will > > > mention the Sunfire desktop, which I remember learning about from BBC > > > Open University.) > > > ... > > > > Did you mean Starfire? <http://asktog.com/starfire/>
As this page mentions, probably the best reading you can do about that is the book "Tog on Software Design", which covers a lot of the thought processes that went into the Starfire video. There were also a couple of CHI papers about it at the time, contact me offline for those if you don't have access to the ACM Digital Library. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
