In the mid 90s and early 2000, all Linuxes had virtual Desktops.
What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
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Re: What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
#32Just gave it a spin and feels very rough / unpolished.
- Why is the default scroll wheel action panning vertically and not zooming in and out (the main interaction)?
- Why is the app size 1GB?
- Everything feels clunky / not native - these are not my real apps.
This would need a lot of work to feel frictionless but I like the concept.
Re: What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
#33In the mid 90s and early 2000, all Linuxes had virtual Desktops.
They still do. My first thought was that virtual desktops and moving when you hit a screen edge gives you may of the advantages of this.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
this stuff was huge for a while, 20-25 years ago, digital libraries, information exploration, ... consider even things like minority report, or more prosaically, all the demos coming out of MIT medialab. It never really caught on, completed got clobbered by free text search, now AI chat interfaces I guess. Am glad to see it bubble up again, because have good memories working on this stuff.
I am too lazy to do the work but in that time frame I considered that a zooming/hierarchical view would be a nice way to browse the web, with followed links appearing as new pages next to the current page. The web became too dynamic for that anyway.
OS/2 Warp's browser did that - it kept a tree of parent and child nodes (indented) as a history type of thing..
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#35The title doesn't do this justice. I would so love for this to be a finished polished product that just works.
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#36https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface They mostly do not gain a lot of users. Good luck!
>They mostly do not gain a lot of users.
Ever used a browser on iOS? Google Maps / Apple Maps? ZUIs are one of the main multi-touch user interface paradigms now.
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#37The title doesn't do this justice. I would so love for this to be a finished polished product that just works.
I’m ready for Apple to swipe the basic idea and roll it into the next version of macOS. Gels nicely with the spatial widget work they do on visionOS. Deprecate stage manager while you’re on it.
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#38The title doesn't do this justice. I would so love for this to be a finished polished product that just works.
thanks! we wanted to put it out there and see if there's interest before investing more time in polishing it. it's been really helpful to see the discussion here.
Re: What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
#39The title doesn't do this justice. I would so love for this to be a finished polished product that just works.
I’m ready for Apple to swipe the basic idea and roll it into the next version of macOS. Gels nicely with the spatial widget work they do on visionOS. Deprecate stage manager while you’re on it.
Maybe but I like the idea of it serving as an agent sandbox or context boundary which is probably too specialized for Apple to build into the OS.
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#40https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface They mostly do not gain a lot of users. Good luck!
I've often wondered if all they are missing is eye tracking and the ability auto tilling manager? I'd love to be able to press ctrl, look at three windows in my zoomed out view, and then release and have all 3 of them be distributed by a normal tiling window.
I agree that laying things out on an infinite 2d plane is surprisingly time consuming. We must be missing some affordance or something in how this should be?