My request to ubuntu developer team

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 15:49 -0800, Ernest Doub wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Amedee Van Gasse
> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>         On Sat, November 19, 2011 23:40, Pongo A. Pan wrote:
>         
>         > 5. Michael Jackson and gnome 2 are still dead, and pretty
>         soon the
>         > traditional desktop computer will be too for most users.
>          Get over it.
> 
> BZZT!  Wrong...  The "traditional desktop" is a major production tool
> for businesses.
> This multi-mega-billion dollar investment isn't going to be replaced
> by any handheld device in less than a decade given the most optimistic
> projection of technology adoption.  This would require an increase in
> device capabilities at a rate some multiple of the fastest rate seen
> since the introduction of the silicon transistor.
> 
> As far as the traditional desktop being dead, I will use the analogy
> of motor vehicle controls as a parallel to the GUI front end used to
> control the underlying computer hardware and software.
> There are 3 basic control schemes for self propelled motor vehicles.
> Each has its preferred applications and there is very little cross
> platform use yet all accomplish the same basic function of controlling
> the functions of a self propelled vehicle.
> The 3 systems are the automotive, the motorcycle, and the track laying
> vehicle.  All 3 basic systems have been in use for well over 100
> years.  All 3 systems were developed within 10 to 20 years of the
> introduction of self propelled vehicles and were standardized by the
> time the self propelled vehicle was in common usage, having supplanted
> other control schemes. 
> Sometimes the collective mind gets it right very early in a products
> development.  The Unity desktop model is not as productive as the
> model that the Gnome 2 desktop is based on.  Business decision makers
> aren't interested in how shiny the new toys are they are interested in
> how much work per unit of time they will produce and what it is going
> to cost in terms of training and acquisition costs.  Over the long
> haul productivity wins over shiny.
> If you don't believe me, go ask those people who have spent their
> entire career studying how to increase productivity and ask them for
> their opinion of which system is better.
> If the Gnome 2 software is getting old and creaky then it is time to
> re-engineer the interface using the current state of the art of
> software development to take advantage of advances in hardware,
> similar to building automotive controls with newer and better
> materials.
> Lets have this discussion about 5 years from now.  By then it will be
> possible to discern whether the tablet is supplanting the desktop or
> whether it is an accessory allowing the desktop environment to extend
> into other areas.
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I am not a technologist but it seems that there is a little more
traction being given to this concept than you would believe...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/five-reasons-why-the-amazon-kindle-fire-will-light-up-enterprises/1971


Craig


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