Sadly in 2011 most of the objects I deal with aren't files.
[deleted]
Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
21–30 of 34 posts
Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
#22Sadly in 2011 most of the objects I deal with aren't files.
What do you mean?
Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
#23The interaction modes look very shiny but in the same way "Minority Report" looks shiny. As to the name, I'll wait until Aza chimes in one way or the other but prima facie it feels pretty weird.
Agreed. I believe the concept was taken out of Raskin's book "The Humane Interface" (great read, but it's been a while since I took it all in). After using it for a bit I have to say it's a nice experiment, but in no way useful for the day to day.
Something about how you interact with it all just doesn't feel right. I might be able to say more after I used it for a bit, but I just don't want to. The UI doesn't invite the user into interaction so much as it does gawking.
Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
#24Can I piggy back on this to spruik my Mac window manager here?
I posted a separate submission this morning but it hasn't seen any attention and I thought it would really appeal to HN's:
Window & tab switching with 'type to search' for OS X http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2675963
Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
#25Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
#26i work with images (and code too) .. but with my mid 2010 macbookpro it gets too slow to be usefull .. i think this kind of interface just need the next (or the next next) chip generation. than you can design a application like that the way it's supposed to be - ultra fast, with every label changing size to be readable .. etc etc .. nice try though ..
Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah... I got that far, but it still has nothing to do either of them.
Jef presented the idea of a zoomable interface in his book "The Humane Interface" and a zoomable interface was a part of THE/Archy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
There was also some research in the 70s and early 80s, especially the Spatial Data Management System by Christopher Herot.
Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
#28An interesting concept, for programmers it would be great, if they supported something along the lines of 1996s "Software Visualization in the Large", by Thomas Ball and Stephen Eick [1]. I did something like that (i.e., marrying the visualization with a file management metaphor) quite a while back in Eclipse, but never got around to maintain it. Too bad, because I kind of liked it. (And it was different from AspectBrowser, too.)
[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.89....