But what if your desktop KNEW that you downloaded updates from site ABC and put them in dir/home/me? It could make it easier to put them there, instead of always having to scroll/click around to find the same damn directory over and over again.
Granted, no huge leaps of AI here, just minor adaptive behavior. Notice I didn't say adaptive(changing) interface:-)
A good UI (IM[!]HO) should learn how the user works, remember what they did last time, and make it easier to do it every time in the future.
I agree, it should NOT keep making a user re-learn how to use it, instead, it should be almost transparent.
How about a desktop that learns as you use it, and can predict where you're about to store the file you're working on?
Or one that watches the way your organize your stuff, and the features you use to do it, and doesn't stand in your way when you try but actually HELPS you do it?!
Sure, fixing the OBVIOUS stupidities (all 400 zillion of them) that Windows and GNOME/KDE have would be a nice starting point, but why stop dreaming there?
Wouldn't it be nice if your desktop & apps could actually work together and know at least -something- about where you're keeping your files for a given project? Or what projects and what files are related? Or what features you tend to use and how you use them?
C'mon segmond, use your imagination for crissakes, bringing some AI to the desktop would certainly be useful.
How about this, forget the web, and apply your AI expertise towards building a decent desktop UI!
In the Windows world (forget about stability, I'm talking USABILITY here), we have windows that pop themselves to the foreground whenever the hell they want, and where you click START to SHUT DOWN or LOG OUT.
And in the Linux world, we have a new window that gets created but doesn't get FOCUS, and we have the very UNoriginal Windows95 look and feel, but without scroll-wheel mouse support. And the rarely implemented-properly cut/copy/paste features.
All in all, I have to say, a decent desktop UI with some AI (or even just 'I') features would be just dandy. So forget the web stuff for now, and give us a decent UI !
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They'll have to rip the shirt from my dead body! (referencing the wicked cool Copyleft t-shirt I bought a few weeks ago)
So, if it was faster than light, does that mean the experiment was over before it was started?
Sure would be a great time saver!
I agree, an ever-changing interface would SUCK.
/home/me? It could make it easier to put them there, instead of always having to scroll/click around to find the same damn directory over and over again.
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But what if your desktop KNEW that you downloaded updates from site ABC and put them in dir
Granted, no huge leaps of AI here, just minor adaptive behavior. Notice I didn't say adaptive(changing) interface
A good UI (IM[!]HO) should learn how the user works, remember what they did last time, and make it easier to do it every time in the future.
I agree, it should NOT keep making a user re-learn how to use it, instead, it should be almost transparent.
Did I change your opinion?
Rest assured, there's no animated paper-clips or any other gratuitous (and useless) nonsense in my desktop UI vision!
:-)
Just think "adaptive behavior"
Really?
How about a desktop that learns as you use it, and can predict where you're about to store the file you're working on?
Or one that watches the way your organize your stuff, and the features you use to do it, and doesn't stand in your way when you try but actually HELPS you do it?!
Sure, fixing the OBVIOUS stupidities (all 400 zillion of them) that Windows and GNOME/KDE have would be a nice starting point, but why stop dreaming there?
Wouldn't it be nice if your desktop & apps could actually work together and know at least -something- about where you're keeping your files for a given project? Or what projects and what files are related? Or what features you tend to use and how you use them?
C'mon segmond, use your imagination for crissakes, bringing some AI to the desktop would certainly be useful.
How about this, forget the web, and apply your AI expertise towards building a decent desktop UI!
In the Windows world (forget about stability, I'm talking USABILITY here), we have windows that pop themselves to the foreground whenever the hell they want, and where you click START to SHUT DOWN or LOG OUT.
And in the Linux world, we have a new window that gets created but doesn't get FOCUS, and we have the very UNoriginal Windows95 look and feel, but without scroll-wheel mouse support. And the rarely implemented-properly cut/copy/paste features.
All in all, I have to say, a decent desktop UI with some AI (or even just 'I') features would be just dandy. So forget the web stuff for now, and give us a decent UI !