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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Here ---> http://www2.iicm.edu/cguetl/education/projects/mischitz/Seminar.htm
This is my favorite one ---> http://www2.iicm.edu/cguetl/education/projects/mischitz/images/star... (check out Brother Dominick)
I don't think the topic here is getting rid of the WIMP, but about improving it, that is what The Human Environment and the other referred UIs are trying to do. The Desktop is not the only WIMP out there, it is just one of the very faces of a WIMP that most modern operating system have adopted. And I don't think either that UI changes are going to be revolutionary, hold your tech-has-to-be-revolutionary horse, these UIs are just going to use and organize the screen space better for us, they are going to keep up with complex data better, they are going to be Internet wise. Netscape Constellation project (http://www.webreview.com/1997/02_07/developers/02_07_97_2.shtml) was far more Internet wise than Microsoft Active Web, before Constellation was doomed. It's nothing new that Microsoft isn't the most interested company in innovation. The only revolutionary change for GUIs at sight is bigger display resolution (obviously that is at hardware level).