[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Gavin James]

On 5 Jan 2007, at 18:45 PM, Ari Haviv wrote:

> I really like that Linkback idea. Should be part of the OS so that  
> more than a dozen or so apps will use it.
> Microsoft will never do such a thing because they want everyone to  
> buy their entire friggin suite.

I'm pretty sure they already did... and called it Object Linking and  
Embedding (OLE). ;-)

- Gavin

>
> On 1/5/07, Niklas Nisbeth <niklas at nisbeth.dk> wrote:
> > 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
>
> GRAH! One of my pet hates. I suppose it's the only way to make Windows
> pleasent, though...
>
> One of the thing I love about Be is the "components" approach:
> replicants, inter-application communication, tracker add-ons (and the
> fact that tracker is so fantastic you don't NEED iTunes, just  
> something
> to play yer files). This doesn't work with maximised windows.
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