Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] thesis - support - question - ideas ...

[Derek Tracy]

On 5/3/07, Johannes Neugschwentner Jr <neugschwentner@×××××××.at> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys!
>
> i'm writing a thesis on "the user-centerd desktop".
> as part of the thesis i'm doing a prototype too.
>
> this is something i really longed to do for a long time and am now about
> to
> start. since i'm under a tight schedule and am not too good a programmer
> with
> not too much experience it ain't gonna be something big.
>
> but anyway. read some boox. surfed around.
> found the plasma project (plasma.kde.org). xinf.org (xinf.org).
> screenweaver
> hx (http://haxe.org/swhx). of course there is superkaramba ...
>
> tend to doing it in haxe (eclihaxe + screenweaver hx) ... pretty sure
> about
> that since the only language i'm really fluent in is actionscript and haxe
> is
> not far from it (wanted to do it in flex before ... but prefer haxe since
> it's all open source)
>
> did some research on hci (designing interactions) ... am going to do
> empirical
> user research .... non-technical-useres ..
> am doing some research on the piling metapher and lifestreams & co at the
> mom.
>
> bumptop by the way with it's piling metaphor is really something very
> appealing and those guys with their thesis did exactly what i'm going to
> do.
> (www.bumptop.com)
>
> well, i'm not exactly sure what i wanna say or question with this, but
> hey,
> found out about this mailing list and thought - hey, sounds great, give it
> a
> shot.
>
> so if you got any ideas, proposals, whatever, here i am
>
> Cya,
>
> --
> Johannes Neugschwentner
>
>

Johannes,

You might want to consider looking at http://www.symphonyos.com/cms/ they
have the most unique approach to a user oriented desktop that I have seen to
date they are using Mozilla engine w/XUL so it shouldn't be too difficult to
program.


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Derek Tracy
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