> > +++ Mayuresh Kathe [linux-india] <30/01/02 00:39 +0530>: >> 4. A next generation UI, look at all those Window Managers, they are >> all wannabes of some old UI paradigm. > > What, in your opinion, would be a new UI paradigm? A 3-D world? Most of the > desktop environments around (kde and gnome are not just 'window managers') > are going the same old MacOS / Doze route. Because it is what the herd > wants, and is most familiar with.
A 3D world would be most uncomfortable in a 2D interface, infact it would be the worst thing anybody could ever do. Yes, it would be great if the world is accompanied with VR peripherals. > Window managers? Try twm, fvwm, blackbox, xfce etc. That's all they do. > Help you open and manage multiple windows. Thats the whole point, thats "All" they do, they let you open and manage multiple windows. I fail to understand, that given the tremendous support most of those Desktop environments have, why can't they make something very solid, take for example the case of KDE-3, they introduced the scripting thing (which is very similar to AppleScript) but failed to incorporate DCF support. Now that AppleScript itself has DCF support, I guess by the time KDE-4 is launched, DCF support would be there too. Why can't the OpenSource community "innovate"? Why do they always have to play catch? Why do they have to be followers and never leaders setting an example for the closed world guys to follow? > They don't try, or want to be, desktop environments, with the mail client > integrated with the browser, which is integrated with the desktop and ... Desktop environments don't dictate that all the components should be integrated with each other, they just dicatate that they should follow a standard UI policy, and prefer to have the apps inter-operable. > And frankly, I am not comfortable with the branding "linux for the desktop". Me too, I guess that was started by the "Emperor" Mr. Atul Chitnis, isn't it? > Distros are for desktops. Distros are for servers. Distros are for > workstations (somewhere between a desktop and a server). Distros are also for Embedded devices :) ~Mayuresh _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
