Fwd: Linux desktop lacks innovation

[David Gerard]

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From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
Date: 15 Nov 2007 20:57
Subject: Re: Linux desktop lacks innovation
To: Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com>


On 15/11/2007, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:

> We must have a new metaphor in the entire desktop operations.
> Everything is still locked in to the ubiquitious file-based user's
> prespective-IT ALL MUST BE END!
> Files must not be files, but objects, that has gravity and physics.
> Screw THEIR menu bar, and show only one single search bar.
> Files must not be in File Managers, but in each applications-just like
> Tomboy does.
> Devices and Drives on the Desktop? What the heck!-Don't show them and don't
> show cut/copy/paste
> operations but "Send to... > My beautiful X thumbdrive"
> I'm sure there's so many ways to think this over. We're so SICK of Microsoft
> bossing everything around!


Multics and the Newton made your hard disk part of memory. (128 bit
address space would make this scalable.) Newton even gave it an
interface. Palm behaves similarly.

The trouble is there's a lot of research projects that look like
fabulously good ideas until they're put in front of real-life
technophobes.


- d.