
Journal Journal: Interesting notes about Longhorn
ynotds posted a nice entry in his journal ( http://developers.slashdot.org/~ynotds/journal/73077 )
So that means that Longhorn will be Microsoft's Copland?
ynotds posted a nice entry in his journal ( http://developers.slashdot.org/~ynotds/journal/73077 )
So that means that Longhorn will be Microsoft's Copland?
Say you work with a GUI in which you could make a link to every document (email, text document, web page) you work with by just dragging and dropping it's icon somewhere. Then you could simulate this idea by making a folder on your desktop for each group/task/situation that you can think of. Say, I get an email from a friend about an article I should read. This article refers to another article I think he should read. I create a new folder on my desktop, name it 'Turning gold into lead', and drag and drop his email, the articles and my email into this folder. Now I've got a nice stack of things that are related to eachother.
It would be even nicer if I opened an item in this folder and the window I had open for that item jumps open. Or if I could open all the items in the folder at once. Or that I could close all the items in the folder that I have open by just clicking on the folder.
I tried to play with this in OS X, but this concept needs 3 things:
Wish I had time to build a hack for KDE. But my first point is most important and depends on 3rd part apps to be able to create a link form a window icon.
See also heironymouscoward's Journal
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.