I would just like to take this moment to spread my geekish joy around with a shot of my current desktop theme in e. [it's pretty simple layout, just sebveral consoles right now as i'm too lazy to run more than that but i certainly can, opera for instance is in the second desktop on the bottom left]:



Money orders, love offerings, and fruit-baskets gladly accepted, shrine-building may commence at any time.

I only wish i were cool enough to have created this theme in the first place..

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Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

Nice. I fiddled with e awhile ago but lost interest. :/


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To artificial life, all reality is virtual.

That is horrible.. absolutley horrible... I don't see how anyone could use that and enjoy it.

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[This message has been edited by TheJkWhoSaysNi (edited December 28, 2003).]

LCARS > you.
That is all.

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Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

Yay for LCARS. Boo for all the complicated code-looking stuff. Where's the pretty colors? The pictures of the Massassi Temple logos? Why must it all look like you're hacking into your computer?

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I'm very confused but it must be good if it uses more than 2 colors!

*gives Dormouse a bucket of badger friends

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He's MUD/MUCK/MUSH-ing.

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It'd be a lot better if it functioned like LCARS, instead of just a wider left window frame...

Expound on that Jon.

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Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

Oh and Geb. upper left is B----X [console-based irc], below it was a realms of despair mud window, to the left of that was naim [console based aim/icq/and such], and above that is my superuser root console window for doing systemish stuff. I could just as easily use gaim and xchat but as i mentioned i was lazy at the time and there's a certain pleasing symmetry to that many console windows.

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Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

LCARS could be a highly effective UI with the proper implementation. I don't like the look of it, but I can see how it would be usable if it were actually created. That's just a skin.

I meant expound on how you think LCARS should be [or is or whatever] implemented. What sort of functionality, management, interface and such. Ie what is lacking

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Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

Yeah, no kidding. Ive always been a big fan of Okuda, mainly for LCARS.

..But the problem with LCARS is, it doesnt align with current UI design philosophies. Namely, the idea of a ``window''... LCARS has no clearly defined seperations between aplications, since everyhting is so tightly integrated. When you try to give LCARS windows, it just falls apart.


In order to properly implement LCARS, one would need to write a new GUI system (prefferably over a decent kernel, IE, Linux), one based not on a "window server", but on an "object server". Indivudual objects - buttons, data boxes, visual/video displays, etc, would be grouped together to form "functions" (not "application", since everything would simply be an extension of the OS). These would need to be integrated with voice intepreters and the displays themselves would need to be touch-sensitive....


Suffice to say, current software limits the possiblities...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Reminds me of Star Trek screens.

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

The LCARS interface is supposed to be ever-changing if I'm not mistaken. It is constantly changing and rearranging according to what you are doing at the time.

I like the blue LCARS myself.

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"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

Never tickle the third foot!

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Exactly. It wouldn't even work that well with an existing kernel. It looks like the UI functionality for document types are integrated into the kernel, and the actual display of the UI is defered to the display device - ie. a touchpanel, a PADD or even a tricorder. (All of which are capable of displaying the same controls, even system consoles, in spite of their different size and shape)

Yeah, it would be a major departure from current UI design.