On 8/16/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 13 août 07 à 13:05, David Chisnall a écrit : > > > On 13 Aug 2007, at 05:47, Jesse Ross wrote: > > > >> As David said in a different email, we could use the object manager > >> to launch apps, or use Quentin's port of the app launcher that David > >> made, or we could drag apps to the side as a clipping, and launch the > >> app from there. > > > > I'm using LaunchBox on OS X and Étoilé now (thanks to Quentin for > > finding my bug on GNUstep). It works well, but the UI could use some > > work. Ideally I would turn it into a menu-bar thing. > > At last FOSDEM, I showed to Jesse various Newton-like Intelligent > Assistant mockups I did. > Basically you type something and depending what you typed, the > Assistant offers various related actions for your text input. If you > type an application name, it will offer to launch it as default > action. It's "intelligent" because it tries to infer what you may > want to do. Actions vary if you type URL, mail address, people name, > application name, unix command, phone number. In a more general way, > the actions vary with the type of object inferred for the typed text. > As a side-effect, this means you can drop an image in the input area > and have image-related actions listed in the Action bar. So it's also > a sort of rudimentary CLI-like interface oriented towards everyday > users. > Some actions are available in most cases like Search, Dictionary or > Spelling. > An API would offer the possibility to add new actions. (snip)
I saw a very nice presentation from aza raskin when I was in mountain view that I encourage you to see -- not so the first part about Zooming User Interface (we all know about that more or less ;-) and know how cool they can be) but about how he implemented a fairly cool text command system to do things with the system (not just launch stuff). With autocompletion and all, it's fairly nice. A bit in the line of "the url textfield is the new command line". http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6856727143023456694 (I was quite pleased to see how close some of his ideas were from the ones we are working on with Etoile) -- Nicolas Roard "La perfection, ce n'est pas quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, c'est quand il n'y a plus rien à enlever." -- Antoine de St-Exupéry _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
