Linked by Kevin Adams on Thu 26th Dec 2002 03:38 UTC
Pahtz writes: "A very alpha release of The Humane Environment (THE) for MacOS was made on Christmas Eve. Jef Raskin, creator Apple's Macintosh, and author of the book "The Humane Interface", is the leader of the open-source THE Development Team."
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tantalic, I'm also a screens addict, and I'm also typing in front of a PC, somebody link some nice THE editor screen shots, pls, we want to see the UI of UIs by the UI master.
A few weeks ago I wrote about Gelernter's Scopevision (www.scopeware.com) way of managing files having them displayed in streams chronologically ordered (formely called Lifestreams). Though interesting, the idea seems a bit visually and functionally limited for the management of complex data, therefore I fail to see it as a desktop replacement at all.
The only metaphors that convince me so far as desktop killers, are those of PIMs (Personal Information Management) interfaces. And browsing through the Chandler PIM project (www.osafoundation.org/our_product_desc.htm), I came across a beautiful PIM (errrr yes, another project) that was completely new to me: The Haystack project at MIT (http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/)
1136x984 screen shot here --> http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/images/screenshot.jpg
I find the whole Haystack UI concept to be extremely clean and elegant, even icons seem under control. Certainly far more polished than the Chandler prototype: Vista.
Integrate media capabilities (in a GStreamer way) in those PIMs and there's the desktop assasin and the human environment for me. Meanwhile somebody show us THE editor.