[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting Video of Win7 UI development

[Daniel Hauck]

David Simmons さんは書きました:
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> http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/WMV-HQ/PC24.wmv
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> Looks
> like alot of interesting changes....now we need to port them to an OS that
> can be stable...grin
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> �- dave

It's not new just because Microsoft does it.

I am not as impressed as you are.  I am pleased that they are moving for 
closer similarity to Mac OS X.  It's not new just because Microsoft does 
it.  Personally, my desktop configuration is closer to similarity to Mac 
OS 9.  I don't like docks at the bottom of my screen at all... not even 
hidden.  Instead, I use a window list applet on my single tool bar at 
the top of my screen.

I can almost guarantee no one else will like things exactly as I do. 
Further, I will assert that there is likely to be no single majority of 
preferences.  Historically, the means of configuration has been that 
someone will select a "default" typically following that someone's 
preferred look and feel and then package their Linux distro that way and 
then offer various means and methods for customizing the desktop 
controls, appearances and behaviors.  But believe it or not, this 
represents work and learning and very few people are willing to do this. 
  (You, the reader, are likely to be primarily a Linux user and you ARE 
the exception... I know... so no one needs to say "but I love learning 
and tweaking!" But accept that you are among the vast minority of users 
out there.)

So to this end, I would suggest that Linux distros capitalize on its 
"there is no one best or most recommended way to do anything" approach 
by setting up a "look and feel" theme that can offer some predefined 
look and feel settings and title them for what they are.  So titles like 
"Like Mac OS X", "Like XP" and "Like MS Bob" could be options to set the 
basics of behaviors, look and feel for a Linux GUI.

I will say I like Windows 7 more than Vista.  But I still like "Windows 
Classic" more than any of them.  I don't like blurry windows!!  I find 
that as I get older, I am already doubting the clarity and accuracy of 
my senses enough as it is -- I don't need Windows confusing me further! 
  Aero-glass makes me nauseous. Windows 7 shows a lot less of that.

And finally, to any fans of what you just saw, I will say this: 
Microsoft has a nasty habit lately of disappointing its fans and 
developers.  Vista was supposed to have a LOT of new things in it... 
revolutionary things... incredible things.  Every last one of them were 
pulled prior to shipping unless you count "Aero-glass" and I don't 
because we have seen these sorts of things in Linux for a long time and 
in Windows with their party apps as well.  It's not new just because 
Microsoft does it.  But that is exactly what this presentation would try 
to have everyone believing.  But back on track in this paragraph, 
Windows 7 can and will change a great deal before it is released... 
whenever that is... (sooner, I hope rather than later... I do not want 
to deploy Vista at my office and I plan to skip right over it.)

It's good to be interested and intrigued by new things... just don't be 
ADD enough to believe it's the only thing worth looking at.  But for 
those who are hopelessly ADD...

...hey look!  There's a nickel!