Archive for the ‘Desktop Experience’ Category
QT 4.6 Gestures
Posted in Desktop Experience on December 3 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gnome Asia Summit Press release
Posted in Desktop Experience on December 1 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Gnome Asia Summit in Vietnam was impressive. Mario shared a whole lot of information about that effort through all stages of the project life cycle, the negotiation with partners and the difficulties and made me kind of feel uncomfortable that I was unable to join his event myself this year. So here is the [...]
Cross-platform as in SkyDrive
Posted in Desktop Experience, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO) on October 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the SkyDrive Explorer, a kind of Dropbox clone, a new definition of cross-platform has been developed:
Cross-platform
32/64 bit OS support
SkyDrive Explorer works both in 32- and 64-bit Microsoft® Windows OS. Minimal required OS is Windows XP, and SkyDrive Explorer will successfully work in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, and Windows 7.
But anyway, tools [...]
Tweetshell
Posted in Cloud, Desktop Experience, tagged shell, tweetshell, twitter on September 14 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is real fun. Tweetshell, an online shell interface for twitter:
tweet_shell@twitter.com:~> wall You know, in linux they say everything is a file. In TweetShell everything is a tweet!!
[The idea is to use your everyday linux commands to interact with twitter. In the previous line we are using the "wall" command to post a new [...]
LXPanel 0.5.2
Posted in Desktop Experience, lxde on August 14 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nice screencast, presents amazing new features of the LXDE program launch panel LXPanel:
The Betanews case for a lightweight operating system
Posted in Desktop Experience, tagged betanews, lxde on June 14 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Betanews makes the case for lightweight operating systems:
The rise of the netbook and other form factors is driving a fairly substantial re-think in terms of how we use computers and what we expect out of them. We no longer shoot for all-encompassing capability, and instead want simpler devices that do the job quickly and efficiently. [...]
PCMan and the Desktop standard process
Posted in Desktop Experience, lxde on June 5 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The LXDE wizard Hong Jen Yee (“PCMan”) makes some bitter remarks concerning the Desktop standard process:
Why should we always be forced to follow all those things we don’t like or don’t even need? If we don’t follow them, we lost compatibility with many existing Gnome/GTK+ and KDE programs. In addition, they modify the specs frequently, [...]
Amarok2 breadcrumb navigation
Posted in Desktop Experience, tagged KDE, amarok on June 3 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amarok continues to experiment with the user interface for the Amarok2 release cycle. Software reconstructionism in search for the ultimate music player interface. Here is one element, in the description of the video:
An extension of the dig-down interface prototype that gets rid of the big, ugly vertical back button and adds a much more flexible [...]
Project Natal
Posted in Desktop Experience, tagged natal on June 3 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The futuristic controller is you, watch yourself:
Just a first step into augmented reality though.
