I have started using xmonad as my primary window manager this year. I had first tried xmonad while learning Haskell. xmonad is a tiling window manager, which means that windows on your desktop border upon each other without overlapping. [Continue]
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Canonical Invests In Usability And Appeal
Canonical is investing in making its desktop more appealing and usable. Kudos to Mark Shuttleworth for taking this initiative. It is not very often that open source projects exclusively talk about appeal. [Continue]
Web Features In RIAs
What should RIA learn from Web applications? Chui has some interesting points. The idea of bookmarkable applications might be pointing towards resources, or at least a part of it. [Continue]
Task Based Desktop
All my interactions with non-technical users point towards the same thing, and quite boldly - task based desktop. Most of them are not worried about the application being used nor about what is involved in invoking it. In fact, I know some people who consider it to be a lot of effort to not only start an application, but even to remember doing so. [Continue]
On Desktops
I said earlier that I did not like the direction in which KDE 4.0 was going in. But the underlying cause can be perhaps found in Havoc Pennington’s post. GNOME 2.0 and KDE 4 are bad models for change. [Continue]
Adobe AIR Goes To 1.0, But Still Without Linux
Adobe is about to release AIR 1.0, which means that AIR will cross a huge milestone. AIR is a cross platform merge the desktop and the Web, and develop rich applications. I think this is a milestone not only for Adobe, but for the technologies which can offer webified applications. [Continue]
Mozilla Messaging And It Is Thunderbird 3
Mozilla Messaging is a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, and as the name says, focusing on messaging (via Ars Technica). The plans, as David Ascher explains, are to build a great product on the existing Thunderbird 2 base. We’ve started defining what Thunderbird 3 will be, because we think that there is enough consensus to make some of the first decisions on the most important changes to tackle first. [Continue]
Running Linux On Windows
Solutions for people wanting to use Unix-like environments under Windows have evolved. Started with Cygwin, it has now progressed to using a port of the Linux kernel to Windows, called coLinux. But now we also have andLinux, which makes it a lot easier to use Linux applications in Windows. [Continue]
Build Technical Credentials With CrossLoop
Yes, the same CrossLoop that started as an easier and simpler remote desktop tool. Its edge over the others is that it removes the technology from desktop sharing, which is why it has appealed to the common man. You can do many things with screen sharing, but the most important one being helping others with their problems. [Continue]
Mozilla Prism
Mozilla has announced Prism, an effort to bridge the gap between the Web and the desktop. Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur. WebRunner has been picked up as the first candidate for the experiments. [Continue]
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