Re: [Usability] Linux Desktop Usability

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:16 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:15:53 +1300
> > From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>
> > To: GNOME Usability List <usability gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Linux Desktop Usability
> >
> > On Mar 6, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > ...
> > > (I'm also hoping someone from Sun Microsystems - gentle nudge - will
> > > mention the Sunfire desktop, which I remember learning about from BBC
> > > Open University.)
> > > ...
> >
> > Did you mean Starfire? <http://asktog.com/starfire/>

As this page mentions, probably the best reading you can do about that
is the book "Tog on Software Design", which covers a lot of the thought
processes that went into the Starfire video.  There were also a couple
of CHI papers about it at the time, contact me offline for those if you
don't have access to the ACM Digital Library.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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