One thing I've had in mind for some time now is a kind of gimp plugin that simulates various kind of color blindness, so the user can get an idea of how colorblind people would perceive the images. Ideally this would enable designers to make their work more accessible to those people. Alas, I haven't yet found the time to learn enough about color science to build this.
Having this functionality in a web browser would to cool too and might encourage web designers to build accessible sites.
I think that a "graphical pipe" would be one of the greatest things that could happen to GUIs. I imagine arrows that I can draw between various widgets. E.g. xterm might provide, say, 8 slots. I connect slot 2 to my xmms playlist widget. Now I can type something like this:
ls *.mp3 | gpipe2
to add some files to my playlist. Then again, xmms might provide a slot that I can connect to synaesthesia, sox, etc.
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One thing I've had in mind for some time now is a kind of gimp plugin that simulates various kind of color blindness, so the user can get an idea of how colorblind people would perceive the images. Ideally this would enable designers to make their work more accessible to those people. Alas, I haven't yet found the time to learn enough about color science to build this.
Having this functionality in a web browser would to cool too and might encourage web designers to build accessible sites.
I think that a "graphical pipe" would be one of the greatest things that could happen to GUIs. I imagine arrows that I can draw between various widgets. E.g. xterm might provide, say, 8 slots. I connect slot 2 to my xmms playlist widget. Now I can type something like this:
ls *.mp3 | gpipe2
to add some files to my playlist. Then again, xmms might provide a slot that I can connect to synaesthesia, sox, etc.