Re: [Usability] (no subject)

[Owen Williams <ywwg usa net>]

>From the way macintosh power users talk about quicksilver, it sounds
like an application we should think about cloning.  As I understand it,
it's a graphical application that functions much like a command line
with pipes, but for rich data.

owen

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 21:49 -0300, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> On 16 Sep, 2005, at 8:38 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
> > ...
> >  - saying that, I understand that many people (including me) still
> > like to use the command line, and running it on the background seems
> > perfectly (albeit flawed in usability terms* fine). Running a gDesklet
> > would solve this problem.
> > ...
> > One solution could be to have a dashboard type application that
> > appears over the desktop when you hit a key (such as F12 in Mac OS X).
> > ...
> 
> That's pretty much describing Quicksilver with the Terminal module 
> installed. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_%28software%29>
>