Linked by weildish on Fri 12th Dec 2008 01:01 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces Though this technology isn't incredibly new (the video is dated June of 2006, and OSNews has covered it before), it's still not publicly available; however, it'll supposedly have a beta out for subscribers to test someday. Branded "BumpTop," this new interface builds off of the idea of organization done on traditional desktops-- I mean the wooden, metal, or glass ones. People naturally organize papers and other items into piles that make sense to their own ways of thinking. This kind of organization is limited on operating systems today, but BumpTop makes an old idea new by turning your virtual desktop a little more real.
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Some thoughts
by parentaladvisory on Fri 12th Dec 2008 11:16 UTC
parentaladvisory
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2006-12-18

First impression: Cool!
After some thought: How is an application represented in this environment? A browser? pdf-viewer? What happens if you would brows a (traditional)system-direcotry with 1k+ files? How would things like that be managed?
They dont think I would have my /home, /lib /etc /proc or even / in a pile each? ;)

For browsing around my ~ , maybe it would be at least cool, but regarding the questions above, maybe even useful?

Edited 2008-12-12 11:17 UTC