Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Feb 2010 21:38 UTC
Developed by industrial designer Barton Smith, the Stream Adaptive Computer System is an interesting take on making computing easier and more adaptable to suit the user's current needs. Today, he also unveiled the operating system and user interface that would run on Stream. It's... Amazing.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 09/05/10 18:34 UTC, submitted by dmbkiwi
"When activities were introduced into KDE 4, they did not make much sense in isolation. In addition to having virtual desktops, there were activities, which the user could create and configure to have different wallpapers and different widgets. Much of the virtual desktop functionality of KDE 3 was absent and not directly connected to Plasma activities. With the release of KDE 4.5, Plasma has reached a much higher level of maturity, and activities can now be integrated with virtual desktops, dual monitor screens, and with the Dashboard feature."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 09/03/10 22:34 UTC, submitted by Mike C
Clemens Zeidler, one of the spearheads for the Stack & Tile implementation on Haiku, has let the Haiku development mailing list know that a new and improved (and refactored) version of the feature has been committed to the Haiku source tree. This new version is no longer a hack into Haiku's app server itself, but is it's own decorator, in Haiku/Be parlance.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 09/03/10 16:12 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 09/02/10 22:45 UTC
"Google is celebrating Chrome's second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and form data across machines."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 09/01/10 14:26 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Well, this is kind of funny. Steve Wozniak, still an Apple employee, has defended Paul Allen and patent trolls in general. "I'm not at all against the idea of patent trolls cause I've had friends who just got forced into bankruptcy by bigger people who had more money and could have a lawsuit against them, forced them to be their own lawyers, and in the end, sometimes they're victorious. But it's a real hard way to do it. So if you're going to have a patent and say 'It's worth some money, I'll sell it', well, even if Paul Allen makes a fortune off of it, I think he had the insights to recognize which patents were valuable." Apple is one of the companies Allen is suing.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 08/31/10 22:28 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform. This update is the first in a series of stabilization updates to 4.5.0, coming every month, as if delivered by a cronjob. 4.5.1 brings bugfixes and translation updates on top of KDE SC 4.5.0."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 08/31/10 22:26 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 08/30/10 22:00 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 08/30/10 21:58 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 08/29/10 21:40 UTC, submitted by sawboss
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For the most part I like what I'm seeing, but it was too short of a demo to get a real good feel for the system. I would have liked to seen him go through some more everyday tasks, email, web browser, word processor, file manager and so on. But it was enough of a view to tell a few things about the project.
The ideas shown here seem very similar to the core ideas behind projects like Moblin, dividing things up based on activities or uses rather than files and programs. Its a good idea and the implementations are getting better and better but they all still feel like they need more user testing, especially for more productivity related tasks since these things always seem designed from a content consumption perspective, not creation.
Also the 'real world' file manager is just as gimmicky as all other real world file managers I have seen. They all suck and people should just move on from this concept. The idea is to make things better than real life not just recreate it.