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From: | David Adam Bordoley |
Subject: | Re: Of applications and documents |
Date: | Mon, 02 Jun 2003 00:04:16 -0400 |
How plan you to make it more successful than the Lisa (ancestor ofMacintosh) or the OpenDoc architecture?http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/Legacy/OpenDoc/opendoc.html
Open doc was an idea ahead of its time. Its pretty clear to me that the application metaphor doesn't scale well at all once you amass a large number of different tasks (see the windows start menu for instance), plus from a user stand point its much more natural to approach using a computer by manipulating the data as oppose to using programs (for instance a view of your music should always provide a music playing interface, as oppose to needing to start a music playing app). How do I plan to make it more succesful. Well by making it work of course :) Simply implementing another windows/mac clone seems pretty silly to me, clearly gnome and kde have already for the most part succeeded at that (for better or worst), linuxstep/gnustep on the other hand, really have a chance to truly create a new and much more usable system. Anyway my words are really more for encouragement and the hope that linuxstep can really become something better than the rest :)
dave
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