ideas for teh l33tn355 that is vista

hey-o!i gotta question, if you could do something to vista that would make it even cooler (if that even is possible), what would you do?i'd animate the little windows pearl so that when you moused over it, it did something interesting~!!what would YOU do?

[256 byte] By [aborchik] at [2008-2-2]

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# 1

What does l33tn355 translate to?

BrianKramer at 2007-9-3 >

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# 2

l33tn355 translates to "leetness" or "leet-ness".sorry, i forgot 7 was T and 1 was L.

aborchik at 2007-9-3 >

# 3

It already has been done...

nobugz at 2007-9-3 >

# 4

At some point in time, Windows needs to give a new way to organize the desktop. Having various windows that move around and overlap each other arbitrarily is not a very efficient way to work, and it's messy. It was borne out of the "desktop metaphor" where documents can be moved like physical pieces of paper, but maybe that age needs to end.

BrianKramer at 2007-9-3 >

# 5

Brian, i agree with you totally. flip 3d and all that fancy stuff is highly confusing. i prefer how darn [edited] small linux handles the desktop: there are four squares at the bottom right corner of the screen, and you can run as many windows you want in each of these "desktops". it's really handy, 'cause you can run firefox in one, a word processor in one, a media player in the third, and something else in the fourth. if i could run that in windows, i'd be one happy human being. they're called "workspaces", and i think windows should *gasp* take a hint from linux. blasphemy!! how could a company that makes you pay obscene amounts of money for an os have a worse design than a 40mb live cd i paid nothing for?!

aborchik at 2007-9-3 >

# 6

also remember - products are based on customers specs - its all whatever the customer wants, they get (you are the customer)

ahmedilyas at 2007-9-3 >

# 7

I could use workspaces in my work. I switch from work to play, etc, and it would be nice to compartmentalize my windows. But I was talking about a bigger shift away from having overlapping windows--I am not sure what that shift looks like, and what sort of efficiencies might be gained.

Oh, I don't think the price you pay for an OS is obscene. There's a lot of labor that goes towards it, and if you compare the cost of this compared to say, music, clothes, food, cable-tv, an cell phone, you name it... it's not expensive. To compare the cost versus "free" where volunteers donate time to give you a product is to compare apples and oranges.

BrianKramer at 2007-9-3 >

# 8

Would be great to have a choice of window managers like you do on linux. Some days I want clean and responsive and others I really fancy eye candy. I know you can switch from aero to windows classic but it's hardly the choice I was looking for. :)

devstuff at 2007-9-3 >

# 9

Can you give an example? Do these window managers come from different vendors?

BrianKramer at 2007-9-3 >

# 10

No,

it wouldn't. Having to make your program compatible with all of

them must be a great pain. Or being forced to use a library that

hides the differences (Qt?), ending up with a GUI that doesn't look

good in any of them...

nobugz at 2007-9-3 >

# 11

Yeah. Making a nice UI is tough work--it takes many person-years to get it right, especially as standards are held high (nobody wants a GUI that is no more productive than one created 10-15 years ago). That's why I asked for examples, to see whether this linux claim really is substantial.

BrianKramer at 2007-9-3 >

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