Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 5th Nov 2009 21:05 UTC
There's no right way to do it, only ideas that are better than others in certain situations. But if you had the opportunity to head up the design of a new OS, one to Put Things Right, one that could be radical enough to varnish out those UI/X bumps that have clung on for years, but practical enough to be used every day, what would you design? How would you handle application management? What about file types and compatibility? Where would you cherry pick the best bits from other OSes and where would you throw away tradition? I've tackled this challenge for myself and present (an unfinished idea): KrocOS (warning: HTML5 site, will display without CSS in IE/older browsers). OSnews Asks: What would make your perfect OS?
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2006-09-22
I'd go for a small kernel, and an extremely minimalistic UI that would spend most of the time hidden. I'd like the window manager to include a "tiled mode" like wmii, dwm and friends.
The central point would be an app / document / web launcher and nothing else. This would require tight integration with file indexing services and web services of course, but it can be done today.
Actually, I think I can do something fairly similar using some Linux / BSD derivative
Edit: Oh, of course, no modal windows. At all.
Edited 2009-11-05 21:38 UTC