On Monday 20 September 2004 11:58 am, Matt Parker wrote:
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Date: Today 11:58:53 am
On Monday 20 Sep 2004 11:41, Dave Briggs wrote:
I'm not sure what my ideal GUI would have. Probably Desktop-only, with a folder with applications on it, and one for files. Perhaps a floating toolbar with regularly used apps and the time and stuff on it, but even that might be making things too complicated!
Anyone else care to describe (as much as they can) their ideal GUI?
Dave
Sounds like you're describing WindowMaker. It's probably on your distro's CDs. Install it and give it a go.
Also sounds like Windows, pre Win95 to me.... Win3.11 for Workgroups (shudder)
The problem I see with this interface is that if you bury the desktop folders then the only way to launch a new program or open a file is to minimise all your active windows or somehow bring those root folders to the foreground
That is why MS sort of turned Apple's solution upside down and claimed they had invented a whole new UI paradigm.
I am glad KDE does group applications by function, as it is somewhat less than intuitive that you need to use something called Mozilla to access the interweb, A thing called xmms to listen to music, The gimp to edit your family photos and so on...
One of my pet hates regarding the Windows start menu is how applications sometimes get grouped by the vendors name so you end up with things like
Start Menu > All Programs > symantec corporation > Norton Antivirus > Tools > AV Control Centre
Ok so that is at least partly down to the installers for the individual applications, but even so.....