We must have a new metaphor in the entire desktop operations.<br><br>Everything is still locked in to the ubiquitious file-based user's prespective-IT ALL MUST BE END!<br>Files must not be files, but objects, that has gravity and physics.
<br>Screw THEIR menu bar, and show only one single search bar.<br>Files must not be in File Managers, but in each applications-just like Tomboy does.<br>Devices and Drives on the Desktop? What the heck!-Don't show them and don't show cut/copy/paste
<br>operations but "Send to... > My beautiful X thumbdrive"<br>I'm sure there's so many ways to think this over. We're so SICK of Microsoft bossing everything around!<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Nov 14, 2007 1:27 AM, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Not sure if folks hereabouts saw this. I had hoped for more<br>constructive comment and criticism than I got. Even the legal eagles<br>at Groklaw missed my point and dismissed it as a troll.<br><br><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/02/linux-innovation-missing" target="_blank">
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/02/linux-innovation-missing</a><br><br>Sundae Supplement<br>Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it<br><br>Extract:<br>Executive summary for the terminally impatient
<br>Microsoft is complaining that "the Linux desktop including OpenOffice"<br>infringes some 235 Microsoft patents. An objective comparison between<br>the whole Linux desktop and Microsoft's Windows desktop shows that it
<br>has a good point; there are many resemblances, from trivial to<br>profound. However, there are plentiful other non-Windows-like models<br>of desktop to follow instead. At least two are already there:<br>implemented, working and ready to use, complete with accessories. Two
<br>complete Free, open source desktops, radically different from anything<br>Microsoft has patented. They're just not being used by any<br>distributions.<br><br>--<br>Liam Proven • Profile: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven" target="_blank">
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