Re: The State Of The Art

[Cory Watson <gphat cafes net>]

MagniFind is very interesting, and I was rather impressed until I hit my
windows directory and watch it choke and sputter.

I wouldnt call their Hyperbolic Tree the next step in the desktop, hell,
its not even a good step in user interfacing;)  But its a step.  Maybe even
in the right direction.  Maybe we should spin off and form another list
(were cluttering up some boxes here) to discuss a leapfrog UI?  Then when
we get a concrete idea, we can present it to the WM people?

At 06:58 PM 5/24/99 +0100, Paul Barnfather wrote:
>Dr Geek wrote:
>> 
>> >Check out: http://www.us.ggi-project.org/screenshots.html
>> Nice, but that's seeing the cube from the *outside* :-) :-)
>> Plus I'm looking for something that can be done *now*, with the hardware
>> needed for a reasonable Gnome or KDE setup and nothing else.
>> dr geek
>> 
>
>Fisrt, I like your suggestion that we should consider "leapfrogging"
>current GUI technology. CPU's and graphics have moved on incredibly.
>But all we have seen in GUI's is drag & drop and animated cursors...
>
>On a possibly related note, what do you make of MagniFind at
>http://www.inxight.com ? It calls itself a "hyperbolic tree viewer".
>
>Yes, I *know* it's Windoze, but I found it absolutely fascinating.
>It needs a decent machine, mind.
>
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