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