Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 18:30 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces 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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Earl Colby pottinger
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2005-07-06

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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