[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Paul van Nugteren]

Hah! Today I selected multiple movies to be copied over wlan to another
notebook, I selected them in a particular order on purpose! because I
had trouble coping 1 particular movie (of course these 2 NB's were
running windows). Guess what? Windows *still* copied the lot in
alfabetical order, I sometimes really hate this OS.

Paul

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:31:56 -0500, "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
said:
> 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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> >
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