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LCARS Themes in Development

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bling-vs-functionality dept.

mr100percent writes "I'm sure most Slashdot readers remember the computer UI from the Star Trek universe. Now, a number of developers are at work making LCARS themes, including one for Nokia tablets. There's even a Standards Board, with a flash LCARS demo." Several of us here in the office had the opportunity to test out the Nokia 770 at LinuxWorld San Francisco. The "cool factor" of a UI like this may even outweigh some of the downsides to the device since most of them were interface difficulties.

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  1. And here I was... by oKtosiTe · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...thinking Star Trek was dead.

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  2. Re:Can be useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hospitals? You must mean sickbays!

  3. LCARS is the Lotus Notes of the 24th century by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows it blows but Starfleet mandates its continued use.

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  4. Awesome and intuitive! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Funny

    On no other theme could you just press whatever random buttons you like, and have it do exactly what you need it to do to get to the next part of the plot. So what if you pressed the upper left button to launch a browser last week? This week you'd rather press the middle right one to do it, and it'll damn well launch your browser!

    The only downside is the extremely dramatic expression of concentration you need to exhibit while using it.

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  5. Re:I don't understand the purpose of it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Did anyone ever stop to think that the old text menu navigation systems were in fact very usable indeed. Ncurses interfaces are typically extremely straightforward to use and uncluttered.
    Oh, of course, you're absolutely right!

    ncurses.... nfoiled ngain.