What Features Would Make a "Better" GUI?

Rudyatek asks: "When it comes to desktop OSs, there has been much talk about 'the end of the desktop', 'reinventing the GUI', etc. Usability has become increasingly important as we battle the ugly UIs of Windows and X11, and watch companies like Red Hat and Ximian try to improve them. But I'm curious if anyone has any clear ideas on what a truly 'better' UI would really be like? As a hobby OS programmer I have a great interest in alternative OS ideas, and this is one that I hear more complaining about than actual ideas. Anyone have ideas?"

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Re:I like what Microsoft has done

[Nephroth]

Microsoft fan boys say what you will, your operating system is unreliable. So is every other operating system on the market it just so happens that microsoft makes a target out of themself with restrictive licensing agreements and outlandish business tactics. Any hell they catch is their own fault.

Secondly, KDE looked like it does now back when windows XP was just a figment in bill's evil mind.

Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, we will end the discussion of who is copying whom with this: the GUI was created by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center back in the 70's it ran on a tiny machine that also featured the first ethernet, and the first instance of Object Oriented Programming. Xerox also is responsible for producing fonts as we know them today.

So there you have it, the pure ironic beauty of it all, everyone is copying Xerox.