On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 00:37 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----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. > I'm not sold on that vision. There is a difference between data manipulation, which don't need to be done via command line. What doesn't work there is data entry in all it's various forms - so how do you enter your info into a zone file without your keyboard?
> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
