KDE is QT/C++ - professional development environment, easy learning curve - but the DE atm, sucks.. (too many options, and Ks :))

hello there, can we in 2008 use _technologies_?

Most of the places have wireless networked projectors nowadays already. Something that is entirely unsupported in Linux. But what if you could just say “I want to present this”, and as the one projector was networked, and uPNP and the other fancy technologies worked, it would be presented. Not via normal OOo, but via that new fancy presentation interface that we saw a while ago - showing the presenter the notes and lines to speak while sending the slide automatically to the projector without the rest.

Now, often there are teams where some people are remote. You’d be presenting to many people in the same room but some would be remote. How about adding feed to them into the picture. Voila, telepathy again unbeknownst to the user starts up some sort of broadcasting system and asks for people to join the channel (or some similar method, the logics can differ a lot) if they have not offered to join earlier. Voila, they get the slides and join the meeting via voip etc.

All in 2-3 extra clicks. Small things that make users really really love the platform.

I could see things like scheduling (free times from calendars, meeting rooms), IM chatting, email, collaborative document authoring, voip, document management systems integration, collaborative bookmarking, blogging, etc melting together into the point where you can point at any target anywhere and just tell via a set of pluggable ‘verbs’ what you want to do and things would just simply happen… That is something *NO* platform has nowadays, and as the network effects and #1 use of computers is communicating, it would enhance that beyond anything we have ever seen. It would be a major selling point, even forcing the others to adapt or die.

The sad thing is, most of the Gnome developers just are absolutely clueless about marketing, usability, and having any sort of visions.

That said, I haven’t used Windows or OS X for a while, so I may be wrong and they may have had such functionality for years.

the “flash” that people want is generally about making the UI consistent with our interactions with the real world because those interactions are more intuitive to the human mind. (ex: minimizing windows in OSX visually takes you to the place in the bar as if it were a real object being stored temporarily)
Thus bringing us back to point #1, less time worrying about using something correctly and more time living.