[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

[David Damerell]

[Stupid LookOut-style top quoting inverted.]

On Wednesday, 17 Oct 2001, Richard Cottrill wrote:
>David Damerell:
>>On Tuesday, 16 Oct 2001, Murray Walker wrote:
>>>I guess it is only the desktop they are talking about? Still, I'm not
>>>entirely sure I agree.
>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22239.html
>>>"...
>>>Will Linux desktops innovate? No. I don't think of that as being the
>>>solution: because it's open source.
>>Jakob Neilsen does talk a lot of sense, especially about Web design;
>>but in this case I think he's been caught by the fact that innovation
>>in free software is less obvious. A lot of what Emacs does was very
>>innovative, but doesn't really get the headlines.
>I think you may have missed the point of Jakob Neilsen's work.

Hardly; he normally works in the UI field, but he's not just talking
about UI in those paragraphs, as you'll see if you read them.

But if you want specifically UI innovation from free software, what
about the window manager agnosticism of X?

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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