Hey, I noticed an interesting thing on slashdot today about the One Laptop Per Child GUI. Here's the link: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/06/12/11/1155242.shtml
There's a link to the olpc wiki where the GUI is described, and it seems that they've implemented many ideas similar to one's I've seen in the etoile wiki. "Activities, Not Applications", "Journaling" - the OS saves the history of documents rather than making the user explicitly 'Save.', "Zooming" - seems like something else I read about in the etoile wiki. There is also a link to someone's blog where they praise the GUI, and as well as some criticisms in the slashdot comments (one regarding "Activities, Not Applications" - that they tie together assumptions about what the user is going to be doing in advance; but i don't really see how this applies to etoile's model. other criticisms about 'this hasn't undergone testing', etc.) _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
