From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hjvqb-0005dE-4g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:21:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l44BJtfq006470; Fri, 4 May 2007 11:19:55 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.244]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l44BJrw9006465 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 11:19:54 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so785822ana for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 04:19:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=W+nAwLZQ2c1emZdUkk6brgIqsnN7DKHbTMbw563rNLn4D8ZrZq76a3KYrSKabO+1ea64q2ojxTgP2kt55Ii7yofHpS/mk9chuyrB/cfhJkfvlQoS4/gY6iC9ToaxUOPFdQGkAJwSqNgUkGKnsuzsWf4tWGUgI7Tseu1UCtX4oPQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=h/NLgL0XD4oYvSDlWbd/+PooJnIgIwqqYGFKwYqNqmUXqYAqszJ2Par965yetjcBHlHfi5uB2j7+MVOiuRtz/Izrw63R2oeshmQZpwy9mtvLrj7zCrDgNFaEelvmgN9OxP03tgUgj/KxPjrX+ekc+ZvaS5nkXqY+1o/vgWrKmcQ= Received: by 10.101.68.18 with SMTP id v18mr25963ank.1178277591730; Fri, 04 May 2007 04:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.91.7 with HTTP; Fri, 4 May 2007 04:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9999810b0705040419g7b0f05cagba57cdcac9a2122b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 07:19:51 -0400 From: "Derek Tracy" To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] thesis - support - question - ideas ... In-Reply-To: <200705032331.34170.neugschwentner@comteam.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_43608_17452503.1178277591588" References: <200705032331.34170.neugschwentner@comteam.at> X-Archives-Salt: 0835b41b-4e08-423d-859d-3e154d59ad5d X-Archives-Hash: 799d87df978933f9f0baadfe3bf15c9c ------=_Part_43608_17452503.1178277591588 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 5/3/07, Johannes Neugschwentner Jr 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. -- --------------------------------- Derek Tracy tracyde@gmail.com --------------------------------- ------=_Part_43608_17452503.1178277591588 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 5/3/07, Johannes Neugschwentner Jr <neugschwentner@comteam.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
tracyde@gmail.com
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