Does anybody who comes up with these ideas actually use them? How do you call in an order, talk to the salesman, and read the model from notes on your palm? The only benefit is maybe a one piece wireless net access device. Read/. at a couple of bucks a minute.
Derek
http://jobtracker.sourceforge.net
When have any of the above had any success with gui? Is linux going to look like StarOffice? WPS? (that wouldn't be bad, although nobody outside of IBM could write anything for it. All the best parts were 'undocumented')
This will please the people who don't know that linux is already running a good part of their network infrastructure.
The people who want a standardized gui/api are those who would like to package closed source applications.
Some marketing puke wants to get 'control' of something. 'We can't sell linux unless it has a consistent interface'. We have to get some userinterfaceexperts to make it easy for the masses. These linux wonks don't understand interface.
If these large monoliths were capable of actually producing something worthwhile out of this, I would worry. But since they aren't, and this more than likely is a shallow marketing ploy, we will continue to see improvements in the gui of linux. How so? The same way the rest of the system has improved. Individuals with good ideas writing something, then getting other like minded people to build on it.
With the two desktop systems maturing, the grunt work is almost done. Now, anybody who has an idea on how to improve the way (s)he get work done can write something. Then show it off, gather support and help to finish it. We will see new ways of interfacing our machines. And not have to wait for some committee to decide. Some ideas will die and be forgotten, others will become common currency. Soon MS will be implementing some of the ideas from linux user interfaces.
Derek
If I were King, I would kill all the lawyers. Then all the salesmen.
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Does anybody who comes up with these ideas actually use them? How do you call in an order, talk to the salesman, and read the model from notes on your palm? The only benefit is maybe a one piece wireless net access device. Read /. at a couple of bucks a minute.
Derek
http://jobtracker.sourceforge.net
When have any of the above had any success with gui? Is linux going to look like StarOffice? WPS? (that wouldn't be bad, although nobody outside of IBM could write anything for it. All the best parts were 'undocumented')
This will please the people who don't know that linux is already running a good part of their network infrastructure.
The people who want a standardized gui/api are those who would like to package closed source applications.
Some marketing puke wants to get 'control' of something. 'We can't sell linux unless it has a consistent interface'. We have to get some userinterfaceexperts to make it easy for the masses. These linux wonks don't understand interface.
If these large monoliths were capable of actually producing something worthwhile out of this, I would worry. But since they aren't, and this more than likely is a shallow marketing ploy, we will continue to see improvements in the gui of linux. How so? The same way the rest of the system has improved. Individuals with good ideas writing something, then getting other like minded people to build on it.
With the two desktop systems maturing, the grunt work is almost done. Now, anybody who has an idea on how to improve the way (s)he get work done can write something. Then show it off, gather support and help to finish it. We will see new ways of interfacing our machines. And not have to wait for some committee to decide. Some ideas will die and be forgotten, others will become common currency. Soon MS will be implementing some of the ideas from linux user interfaces.
Derek
If I were King, I would kill all the lawyers. Then all the salesmen.