[HN Gopher] On Desktop GUI Minimalism
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       On Desktop GUI Minimalism
        
       Author : netdoll
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-09-09 18:23 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mycophobia.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mycophobia.org)
        
       | bluepoint wrote:
       | Cool insights in Desktop! I really hope that someone comes up
       | with a desktop metaphor for the hundreds of open browser tabs
       | (which I think are the new bookmarks) that hang open in an
       | endless horizontal list. Imagine tabs which are like documents,
       | can be moved around, minimized, and spatially organized in
       | folders and subfolders. Actually, why does this not exist
       | somehow?
        
         | somnic wrote:
         | There's an extension for firefox called Tree Style Tabs. I
         | never really got into it but some people are quite
         | enthusiastic, pretty similar to what you describe though.
        
           | bluepoint wrote:
           | This sounds interesting. I will check it out.
        
       | fellowniusmonk wrote:
       | I think issues with attempts to redefine pc computing interfaces
       | is that despite what is stated people are not actually starting
       | from first principles when they go to redesign a personal
       | computing GUI interface.
       | 
       | Even in this article just a few sentences after stating we should
       | start from first principles he then jumps into the assumption of
       | the "desktop".
       | 
       | The baggage of TTY interfaces in textual interfaces and the
       | "desktop" paradigm for GUI interfaces is preventing people from
       | going back to actual first principles for designing personal
       | computing interfaces.
       | 
       | Of course I do appreciate that since the title of the articles is
       | minimalist desktop GUIs the assumption of "first principles of
       | computing assuming a desktop analog" is baked into the article, I
       | just think it's insufficient.
        
         | sim7c00 wrote:
         | so agree that a lot is not going back, perhaps more just
         | modifying whats there.
         | 
         | i think the first rule for me is: computers need to make things
         | more simple for humans.
         | 
         | how we control our devices, how we use those controls to do
         | things (like interact with these guis), currentlt the model
         | makes things always difficult and practically ensures people
         | lose immersion of their real life into some device screen and
         | controlscheme.
         | 
         | tldr i guess; u can optimise guis etc. but if you dont change
         | the interface to those guis its not reinventing anything. these
         | things work in concert to generate the users experience.
        
       | torstenvl wrote:
       | [delayed]
        
       | pengaru wrote:
       | That's quite the wall of text I won't be reading...
        
         | MrVandemar wrote:
         | Put it in reader-mode and up the line-height. Much improved.
        
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