Re: The State Of The Art

[Cory Watson <gphat cafes net>]

Correct me if Im wrong Dr Geek, but doesn't your idea involve 'sliding'
from point A to point B?  Not just getting a fresh desktop when you hit the
edge?  I envision a fluid movement with no defined desktop area... points
in 3D space could hold links, menus, etc.  As commented earlier, gravity
could be lightly introduced to influence the users orientation, keeping
them oriented correctly.

At 10:39 AM 5/24/99 -0700, bob@kehs.ksd.org wrote:
>Right now enlightenment can page flip with the mouse to the next virtual
>screen. To get the affect, I think, all you would have to do is have the
>edges of all the side virtual screens jump to the other side...
>Ex.
>4 different screens.
>1 2 3 4
>if you are in 1, and you move the mouse all the way to the left, you would
>jump to 4.
>
>This should be easy to do...
>
>As to centering, that would take alittle more work...
>
>On Mon, 24 May 1999, Dr Geek wrote:
>
>> "Patrick Kirk" <patrick@kirks.net> wrote:
>> >Sorry - nice idea but sounds a little like innovation for its
>> >own sake.
>> That's certainly not the intention.
>> 
>> >We want a desktop that works and that we can work
>> >with with.  The desktop metaphor works.
>> There's considerable doubt about that in the UI community.  The desktop 
>> metaphor compares your screen to the physical surface of a desk.  Yet your 
>> screen does not behave like your desk at all - it's dynamic, coloured and 
>> you can flip between multiple desktops, each of which could be larger than 
>> the actual screen dimensions.  My proposition is to follow the way in
which 
>> the desktop metaphor has been extended (in which process it's been broken) 
>> and see where it goes.
>> 
>> >The sphere metaphor is, well, pointless.  Why bother?
>> Because there are good usability reasons for doing it.  Otherwise, yeah, 
>> there's no point in bothering.
>> 
>> dr geek
>> 
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