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Hi Karl<br><br>As a novice linux user I'll put in my 2 penn'orth<br><br>I'm interested in junking the outmoded interaction with my PC<br><br>Could you look at:-<br> <br>1 turn on PC<br>2 "Hello 'user' "<br>3 "What do you want to do?" - options<br>4 microphoned response from user - letter/email/DVD/youtube... whatever<br>5 actioned<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Aitch<br><br>-----------------------------------------<br>> From: karl@qdh.org.uk<br>> To: kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:35:00 +0000<br>> Subject: [Klug-general] The desktop, the future...<br>> <br>> So I've touched on this subject in the recent rant of emails. I'm hoping<br>> to gather some replies from people other than Julia. I ask Julia to<br>> kindly let other people speak, and by that I mean, please do not reply<br>> to this email.<br>> <br>> Firstly, I'm going to make a statement of intent. <br>> <br>> What we intend to do in the coming months and possibly years is to learn<br>> from the mistakes made in the last 60 years of computing. Mistakes which<br>> have over time become norms. <br>> <br>> To begin with we're intending to do some human computer interaction<br>> (HCI) research, this will require some, what may seem irrelevant<br>> testing. For instance a bunch of white squares on a black background<br>> that have certain behaviours. <br>> <br>> I hope to invite many of you to help with the initial round of testing,<br>> which will be done via a web browser. We're specifically looking for<br>> computer users who aren't familiar with Linux desktops, so the newer<br>> users amongst you are very helpful to us. <br>> <br>> After we've got data about HCI we'll be moving onto user experience<br>> (UX), this is like the Apple Lisa tests that I mentioned in my reply to<br>> Peter.<br>> <br>> We aren't looking to impose our views on people, but some of the<br>> infrastructure behind what we're doing is built on decades of research<br>> by other people. The organise framework is a jewel in our crown along<br>> with wizbit which btw, is not far from actually being complete. We have<br>> a working implementation but we're still niggling on some design issues,<br>> we hope that soon we'll have some cool things to release and a version<br>> controlled file system while we're waiting for other pieces to come<br>> together.<br>> <br>> We're doing this research and development for you, and everyone like you<br>> that wants to use the free desktop. We understand some of the major<br>> problems like the boxing problem and we're looking to extend our<br>> understanding further, to other problems. <br>> <br>> In the future we hope to develop what we've learned into a revolutionary<br>> new computer experience. The desktop metaphor is actually invalid, we've<br>> seen this and understood it for some time, we understand why it's<br>> invalid but we also understand that it's been there since the early days<br>> of GUI's. e.g. I don't put my waste bin on my desk-top, I put it under<br>> my desk... :) However, we don't want to end up with a metaphor like<br>> microsoft bob either, its senseless, the desktop is closer to what we<br>> really need, but there's something broken deep inside of it... We want<br>> to find it and fix it.<br>> <br>> I invite people to tell me what single interaction gets to them. Any<br>> workflow that people perform that is irritating or simply broken.<br>> <br>> A good example of this came up recently with the icon designers of the<br>> tango project. They were using multiple files to create icons, they'd<br>> start off with a vector graphic, and then they'd produce various sizes<br>> of that graphic in separate files. Someone then introduced One Canvas<br>> workflow, I think it was Jimmac but can't be sure as it was a while ago.<br>> <br>> One canvas allowed the graphic designers to draw their images in<br>> inkscape, at various sizes and split out from the canvas the various<br>> sizes. It was a simple change to a work flow but has sped design of<br>> icons up quite dramatically. <br>> <br>> If any of you have any ideas I'm willing to listen and discuss them with<br>> you. Cantankerous rants are appreciated to, hate something in GNOME or<br>> KDE? Tell me, and I'll take it into consideration.<br>> <br>> Best Regards,<br>> K<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Kent mailing list<br>> Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent<br><br /><hr />BigSnapSearch.com - 24 prizes a day, every day. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/' target='_new'>Search now</a></body>
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