-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: > Bruce Byfield has an article up that explores the current state of the > desktop and poses the question in this messages subject. > > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3826171_1/Does-the-Linux-Desktop-Innovate-Too-Much.htm > > > It's an interesting read, and has a wide range of comments as well.
I could not finish reading all the comments. This is one of those topics I avoid because I just end up angry. There are lots of loud opinions by people who have no effing clue what they are talking about. I also know that I don't know what I am talking about in this realm. What I do know is that the current paradigm is broken. If I knew how to fix it I would. I am hopeful that projects like KDE4 and Sugar have the courage to innovate based on studying how humans actually work, but for right now we will have to suffer under the tyranny of the typewriter and the TV. > What do you think? Is the desktop development moving too fast? What is > YOUR vision for a desktop 10 years from now? > My vision for 10 years is that there is no desktop. Seriously, the 1970s called, they want their clunky and inefficient human to computer interface back. If we are very lucky, 10 years from now people will wonder just what we were thinking. The real revolution will begin once we figure out how to actually use a computer. I suspect that gestures and or touch will dominate and mice will be as quaint as a rotary telephone. There will likely always be some sort of pen for the artists, various musical interfaces that mimic actual instruments (these won't be needed but many like me will take a while to leave those particular interfaces behind), but for most the traditional UI will likely disappear, replaced by speech and gestures. That last bit was just pure imagination. I don't really have a clue about this stuff. I would ask the people who are actually working on this stuff. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpAeD8ACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMruACfflr1b49IEggX/6JA+ggnK8o4 /uMAn01ze0fx2afHdgP8W9Fk/eQ5MSNP =BotB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
