Re:Please humor me... (Score 1)

You said: [...] Why is the the Gnome/KDE/whatever interface even now still a pure bastardization of the MSWindows and Macintosh interfaces? There are brilliant people inovating in every area of design; why has nobody bothered to figure out a better interface? [...] I think it's because, under the whole concept of the "desktop metaphor", all those OSs have hit upon the same basic functions that all users would want to do on a window that's open on their desktop. - They might want to close it (thus close button) - They might want to make it fill the screen (thus maximize button) - They might want to change its size (thus resizing by corner-drag) - They might want to move it (thus dragging by title bar) - They might want to push it out of the way temporarily (thus minimizing and rolling-up) - They might want to execute some other seldom-used functions on it (thus the control menu or right-clicking on title bar) Once someone comes up with a brand new metaphor for using files, applications, windows, etc., I'm sure there will be a new window-management metaphor as well.