[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Ari Haviv]

Non contiguous selection should of course be part of the OS. how about this
idea-you have multiple doc windows open. You do non contiguous selection
across several docs. then you click on something on the sidebar (that's why
the drawer shouldn't be attached to the window!!)
So now you can do one action on many things at once. Like change font or
find a certain word across all (or some) of your documents.

Microsoft Office 2007 looks innovative until you realize that the way you
use their application now takes you *back* into the old DOS way of single
tasking.

They wrote:
But there's good news: according to the Customer Experience Improvement
Program data <http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/04/05/568947.aspx>,
a startling number of Office windows run maximized. Even at high resolutions
like 1280x1024 and 1600x1200, Office windows are maximized most of the time.
And at 1024x768 and below, we're maximized almost all the time.
--
that's what they are designing for. Haiku won't win by designing for maxed
apps "but a bit better." But if Haiku makes it easier for multiple apps,
people will switch . Maybe not all, but probably the web/tech savvy, the
bloggers- the people more likely to try out a new OS in the first place. Let
Microsoft deal with the lowest common denominator.

On 1/5/07, Paul van Nugteren <pmvannugteren at eml.cc> wrote:
>
> 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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