Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-21 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 21. feb. 2012 14:24, C. Cooke wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:52:32PM +0100, supernova wrote: At a very basic level, what the HUD does, is to enable the computer to adapt to the human, instead of forcing the human to adapt to the computer. Explain to me how that's not different from the com

Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-21 Thread Omar B .
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:52:32PM +0100, supernova wrote: > > > At a very basic level, what the HUD does, is to enable the computer to > > > adapt > > > to the human, instead of forcing the human to adapt to the computer. > > > Explain > > > to me how that's not different from the computers

Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-21 Thread C. Cooke
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:52:32PM +0100, supernova wrote: > > At a very basic level, what the HUD does, is to enable the computer to adapt > > to the human, instead of forcing the human to adapt to the computer. Explain > > to me how that's not different from the computers of the 80s. > +1 > ...

Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-20 Thread supernova
> At a very basic level, what the HUD does, is to enable the computer to adapt > to the human, instead of forcing the human to adapt to the computer. Explain > to me how that's not different from the computers of the 80s. +1 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity

Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-20 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 20. feb. 2012 21:41, supernova wrote: What can I say to argue this opinion, that according to me is too extreme? There are extreme differences between words and commands. For instance, the HUD does not require exact matches. Since I use a Norwegian translation, I can use "nedlastinger" or

Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-20 Thread Ian Santopietro
Rather than VI commands, which were cryptic and more like shortcuts, the HUD allows easy discoverability and flexible use of natural language in it's search. That actually brings up a good point. The HUD isn't for running commands, it's a search interface. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 13:41, supernova

[Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-20 Thread supernova
Hi to all. Today I have talked about the HUD to an old physicist Professor; he completely dislikes HUD, guesses that it is like using VI commands. I explained HUD is intelligent, smart, but he says since the 80s there has not been any important change on desktops. Well, apart from graphics that now