-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Arlo White wrote: > I've been following the Enlightenment project for years, always > impressed by the strength of vision and dedication of the developers. > Every once in a while I take an inventory of the graphical toolkits out > there and am always disappointed by the fact that the EFL is the most > progressive desktop gui system out there and yet hasn't really broken > into the mainstream. All the other GUIs (QT, GTK, Windows) are built > around boring components (boxes, pull-downs, radio, etc.) The concepts > behind these mainstream toolkits are decades old. >
very interesting email, which I've cut to save me sending it all back at you. It got me to thinking but I finally decided that it wasn't a good idea. That's only my opinion and it is based on my own personal interface with a computer. I'm running a Linux Distribution and probably at least 50% of the people on this list are as well. Every one of us has probably got a very different "Setup". We could start a religious war on any number of subjects, best editor, best web browser, best Distro, best email client... You're idea is based on the fact that everybody is going to use their computer in exactly the same way. When I think about that given that there are a number of people in the world who buy a PC with Windows pre-installed and they never change a thing, except the wallpaper. Maybe you're correct. I'm still thinking of your idea though and trying to imagine it. If I selected a file then your computer has to know what it is and what that "is" means. If I select a picture there are any number of things that I can do with that picture, similarly with a music file. Perhaps I want to play it, perhaps I want to edit it, perhaps I want to email it to a friend, perhaps I want to add it to a play list. I select what I want to do with the file by selecting the Application that's relevant, to what I want to do. I can "invent" a brand new action to perform on a file by creating a brand new application. I could write an app that plays a music file backwards. I might be wrong but in your system it's a huge monolithic system if I select a file I'll get 100's of options to then select. Is there a fundamental different to right clicking on a music file and getting a list "Edit, Play, Add to Playlist, Email to Friend, Delete,,," and the current system of selecting the App I want. It seems to me to be a difference only in the selection mechanism, and who controls the code. I personally like the old unix ideal of having a smaller app that does something well, then having everything and the kitchen sink all built in together. Sounds like you'd be almost combining the functionality of the Linux kernel, the X Windows System, All the Apps that have ever been invented into one build that spits out uImage. You'll need a big build server ;-) My mom don't use too much functionality that people on this list would use. I'm afraid a more profound Enlightenment would not interest her but I'll ask the next time I see her ;-) Thanks for the email though got me thinking. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknoaUIACgkQXlbjSJ5n4BB0KACeL6UJDEzmOCRq/Htjh6QpwlKU YkoAn305hE/WZpfxz3wzRlfOmkRJICIW =rjzg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
