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A people-focussed email client. Pretty much all email clients are message/thread based. I'd rather have them people-based: A sidebar that shows a list of people who I have recently interacted with; and clicking on them shows all messages I've exchanged with them. I don't really care about threads, because people just don't know how to use them. But even if they do, it often isn't clear when to start a new thread vs.…
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A people-focussed email client. Pretty much all email clients are message/thread based. I'd rather have them people-based: A sidebar that shows a list of people who I have recently interacted with; and clicking on them shows all messages I've exchanged with them. I don't really care about threads, because people just don't know how to use them. But even if they do, it often isn't clear when to start a new thread vs.…
What OS? The only one I've heard of is Unibox (for macOS): https://www.uniboxapp.com/
EDIT: I just downloaded it again, and here's why I don't like Unibox: it has a very low density design. It looks like a fancy website, rather than a productivity app. Lots of space is wasted on frames and borders. UI elements appear and disappear as you move the mouse. It's definitely a modern app, but I seem to prefer more traditional apps...
1. A worthy Google search competitor. Preferably open, open-source, federated, respecting privacy. 2. A platform where scientists can discuss publications. It should be a "home" for every paper. Of course, also open, run by a nonprofit organization, or perhaps even federated. 3. A good open (xkcd-927-defying) standard for chat that everybody will use. (Why can we have this for email, but not for chat?)
What's your vision?
A butler robot. Which will cook, wash clothes, iron, clean the house, fetch and prepare a drink, take deliveries, etc.
It's going to be a weird world when local parks are full of robots walking dogs...
A paid Linux. To get stunning UX design, upstream bugfixing and excellent marketing. Let me explain myself. I love the levels of ergonomy and polish of Mac OS X. But it's closed-source software. If I use (and pay) Ubuntu, then great patches are sent upstream, which I can use in Debian on my servers and Arduinos. It becomes useful to everyone. With Mac OS X, we're not advancing the world. But when I used Ubuntu for wo…
The only reason I and a lot of other people use Linux on desktops is because everything we work on runs on Linux servers and we want the same OS on our machines that runs on the server (even if we also use virtualization & docker when needed).
Even if someone made a perfectly polished Linux desktop system I'd still use some Ubuntu Server with an XFCE DE thrown on top because I like developing on a system most similar to what my software runs on. Incidentally, if I need to develop Windows software, I develop it on Windows. Only exceptions to this are Android and iOS since I couldn't find any good enough dev env setup for these systems.
If you ask for a "polished Linux desktop not based on a server-Linux distro", you are putting yourself into a very narrow niche.... a niche too small be worth developing for :)
I mean something like Ring (1) plus MasterLock 5400D (2) plus embedded 4G mobile connectivity. It must not be a permanent installation (like Ring) and it should not require visitors to be pre-registered (like Supra Keys (3)) in order to access the property (for example contractors, repair staff, delivery personnel, etc)
If something like this already exists, please let me know.
(1) http://www.ring.com (2) http://www.masterlock.com/personal-use/product/5400D (3) http://www.supraekey.com/Products/Pages/Products.aspx
* edits: fixed typos
A butler robot. Which will cook, wash clothes, iron, clean the house, fetch and prepare a drink, take deliveries, etc.
Don't forget caring for pets, including walks. It's going to be a weird world when local parks are full of robots walking dogs...
A paid Linux. To get stunning UX design, upstream bugfixing and excellent marketing. Let me explain myself. I love the levels of ergonomy and polish of Mac OS X. But it's closed-source software. If I use (and pay) Ubuntu, then great patches are sent upstream, which I can use in Debian on my servers and Arduinos. It becomes useful to everyone. With Mac OS X, we're not advancing the world. But when I used Ubuntu for wo…
Cross browser, cross platform, bookmark manager. Bookmarks feels like the live in the 90s still! Please tell me there is something decent out there.