Mezzo Desktop?

Lee Braiden lee_b at digitalunleashed.com
Thu Aug 4 20:18:34 UTC 2005


On Thursday 04 August 2005 20:33, Dougie wrote:
> Anybody checked out Mezzo desktop implemented by Symphony OS?
> http://www.symphonyos.com/mezzo.html
> http://homepage.mac.com/jasonspisak/Mezzo/Menu3.html
>  This seems pretty cool to me!

Aye, looks nice.  Nothing really new here though (some of it was tried years 
ago and fell away).  It'd be nicer than most linux efforts for its 
consistency, but KDE4 is already planning some similar and even some more 
interesting things.

What I'd really like to see is an entirely new approach that focuses on true 
object-orientation: think pages on the screen when desktop publishing, rather 
than applications, and choosing fonts in a highly-graphical way, using the 
same metaphor that's used to choose videos, etc.

*IF* it uses 3D, I'd like to see that used in a very different way from 
current attempts.  There's a nice project out there that uses an immersive 
style of interaction, where applications are like real windows/doors/portals 
in the scene that you go through to the new landscapes/environment of a 
different application.  To play a multi-user game, different characters "sit 
around" the same screen, etc.  This stuff isn't exactly new, but that project 
seems to have a more practical sense of how it could work than most.  Wish I 
could remember the name of it.

Anyway... my point is just that small innovations are already happening in 
Linux without worrying about Symphony too much.  Hopefully the visionary 
stuff will get here someday, if huge corporations don't enslave us to 
mediocrity first ;)

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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