Linked by Michael Reed on Thu 12th Oct 2006 18:00 UTC
This article is a inspired by some of the ideas which seem be constantly floating around my mind whenever I think about or read about operating systems. Surely, every time-served OS-geek carries a mental list of this sort around with them? This is a summary of all of the features which I would like to see in my dream FOSS based Operating System.
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Member since:2005-08-09
* _NEVER_ steal the keyboard/mouse focus.
(Game devs, try to not steal them outside of gameplay)
* _NEVER_ put a new object/window/etc ontop of where the user is currently working.
(like, don't put a notification above the text input box currently focused)
* _NEVER_ put keyboards/mice/etc into weird modes without a visual indicator and a clear way out.
If only vista had this implemented....
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2006-08-15
Gold is a new operating system from scratch designed for desktop use and modern computing, you can see it here http://icculus.org/gold/
This operating system has really nice things, for example, see this about his GUI, http://www.jbit.net/~jbit/Golem-Stuff.txt
This is probably what you would want, it simply rocks!