[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Paul van Nugteren]

Hmm this is sure interesting!  

"Non-contiguous (Multiple) Selection

Need to select multiple words in your document? You can do that with
ease with non-contiguous selection, which Nisus pioneered in our Classic
version many years ago.

Use this flexible tool along with our powerful Find & Replace to make
global changes to your document. For instance, use Find All to select
all occurrences of a particular word and then apply formatting to them
all at once!"

 http://www.nisus.com/Express/gallery8.php

OMG! This really rocks: http://www.nisus.com/Express/gallery10.php
"LinkBack Enabled

Use LinkBack to integrate LinkBack enabled applications into Nisus
Writer Express. For example, build diagrams in OmniGraffle, manipulate
images in Stone Imaginator, then paste the images in Express. Need to
edit those images? No problem, with LinkBack enabled applications, just
double click on the image in Express, and the original application the
image was created in will open. Then save your changes, and the revised
image will appear in Express! "

Thanks for the info Ari, I'd rather go for a Gobe Productive design +
this nisus then an OO bloat-like version ala MS Office.

I really love GP :-(

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 05:56:39 -0500, "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
said:
> I was reading up on the Office 2007 UI, which I ponted out, was designed
> for
> people who maximize the window and only do one thing at a time.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/08/22/711808.aspx
> 
> Not necessarily the best idea for an OS designed so you can do lots of
> things at the same time.
> 
> Believe it or not Microsoft isn't the only word processor around or a
> clone
> like openoffice. Look at Nisus Writer Express on the mac:
> http://www.nisus.com/Express/gallery1.php
> and as a warning
> http://www.mcelhearn.com/article.php?story=20041116135640496
> 
> I think I would want this as a sidebar all the way to the right or left
> of
> the screen.
> 
> Another idea I found was the zoomable UI
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pad++/
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/
> I think if this concept is going to work, zooming should show more
> objects
> and information and not make text size ridiculously large or tiny



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