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bb_matt, I agree UI is evolutionary. But your argument somehow seems to strengthen the point I'm making as well: we need a different way to guide the evolution of UI than what currently exists.

I'm not proposing radical solutions and ground breaking changes. All I'm suggesting is lets give regular users, designers, etc. who are not employees of MS, Apple, or involved with Genome, KDE a chance to contribute because there are a lot of clever people out there with some very good ideas.

As for the point you make about standards, what standards? The article makes no effort to say that we need standards or god forbid, new standards in place.

As for you point about widgets, I'm afraid to you that you're completely missing the point here.

As for every project taking and creating their own path, they do that right now and they will continue doing that int their own ways. All I'm saying is, lets give others a chance to provide suggestions that might lead them on a better path.

Mayuresh



Points taken - perhaps I did misinterpet your ideas.
The widgets point was more to point out what has become "standard" and I do feel very stongly that Standards are needed.

Without a set of standards, we end up with what still happens on Linux desktops - unfamiliar interfaces differing from the default widgets.

Because of some existing "standards" of methods of UI, it is possible for me to shift from windows, to MacOS to Linux without too much difficulty - that, to me, is where good UI is at.

Without standards, we end up with different shortcuts for basic things like Cut, Paste, Save, Open etc. across applications and operating systems.

I can see that a forum could work, but it would need to have a lot of focus and control.