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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Also, I would expand on this, and add that if window and program session state were transient enough that we could freely move it around (like something from Plan9), then I would like the ability that I could drag a file into someone else’s computer across the network, but instead of seeing just a folder hierarchy of that computer, I would see the actual computer’s screen with its session. In fact, I could just freely use any computer’s session on the network (if I had permissions to do so), like a super virtual desktop.
This would reduce the disconnect regular users feel with the difference between accessing data when in front of a computer, and accessing the same data from another computer. It’s not like-for-like enough IMO.