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Alternatives to Icons and Start Menus?

Posted by Cliff on from the gui-paradigms-for-the-future dept.

Cibressus Lybir asks: "We've had icons, folders and menu's for a long time. I currently use two monitors, both filled to the brim with icons and several drawers on each desktop. My Start Menu, on my Windows machine is never used, because it's flimsy and too hard to navigate around. In movies you always see cool 3D desktops with stuff flying around and some kind of cool gesture or spoken word used to start up applications. The future will only bring more applications, more icons, and more time spent navigating around launching your programs. What are your ideas for the future of desktops? How can we rid our selves of the icon jungles that we call our GUI's?"

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  1. Re:I call it cleaning up your damn desktop by deanhash · · Score: 0, Troll

    Am I at the right site? What is all this windows shit? What a waste of time,and all over some guy who can not keep his desktop clean.