Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 18:30 UTC
Rethinking the desktop metaphor, or even improving it in any significant way, is a daunting task, and few dare to take the risk. The end result is that the desktop metaphor that we use today barely changed over the years - which is quite unique for the computing industry, as normally, things change very rapidly.
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RE[2]: I thought of this, but
by Earl Colby pottinger on Tue 13th May 2008 21:08
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Infact, he said it was a improved desktop for the way he works with files. IE, only using a few distinct files each day.
In that sense, I see where he is coming from.
Sometimes, when programming I may be only looking at 5-10 files *ONLY* day in and day. People like my mom also does very few things on the computer and get confused the moment there are more than 20 twenty items in sight.
I think there are lots of people who's daily work flow only involves a few files at a time. To those people, this could be a major improvement.
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I don't see the author mentioning anywhere that Grape is designed to work well with spatial memory. Maybe the reverse even is intended. Perhaps this concept will be a natural fit the day we stop thinking about where we put our files, and just search a flat space instead. Then it might make more sense to use a single full screen file manager, and only have windows for document contents. I know Thom claimed this to be an improved desktop only, and not a redesign of how to interact with the computer in general, plus Yann Le Coroller mentions "as soon as you drop files on it, it automatically generates a preview", which implies a desktop, but still...