Comments for Gary Ekker http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Wed, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Interesting 3D Desktop Metaphor by the bumptop.ca guys by Jim http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2006/08/04/interesting-3d-desktop-metaphor-by-the-bumptopca-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Jim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2006/08/04/interesting-3d-desktop-metaphor-by-the-bumptopca-guys/#comment-5 I agree, it is an older concept, but has been brought to the level that it never saw before. I think it never took off because it did not have the ability and flexability that I saw in that video. Personally I hope to see this as an option (either free or commercially) on Windows, Mac, and Linux.<p/>I agree with Tor's comment that it would also have a GREAT application for photo organizers. Throw some meta-data, basic or advanced photo editing/enhancing, and a bit more organizational features and you could have a pretty good product.<p/>Overall, I don't see it taking over the ENTIRE desktop anytime soon, replacing the background/icon plane as well as some feature-specific areas of specialty programs could give it a good start. I agree, it is an older concept, but has been brought to the level that it never saw before. I think it never took off because it did not have the ability and flexability that I saw in that video. Personally I hope to see this as an option (either free or commercially) on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

I agree with Tor’s comment that it would also have a GREAT application for photo organizers. Throw some meta-data, basic or advanced photo editing/enhancing, and a bit more organizational features and you could have a pretty good product.

Overall, I don’t see it taking over the ENTIRE desktop anytime soon, replacing the background/icon plane as well as some feature-specific areas of specialty programs could give it a good start.

]]> Comment on Interesting 3D Desktop Metaphor by the bumptop.ca guys by segphault http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2006/08/04/interesting-3d-desktop-metaphor-by-the-bumptopca-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-4 segphault Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2006/08/04/interesting-3d-desktop-metaphor-by-the-bumptopca-guys/#comment-4 The SuperSkewer looks a lot like the Wii-mote. ;-) The SuperSkewer looks a lot like the Wii-mote. ;-)

]]> Comment on Interesting 3D Desktop Metaphor by the bumptop.ca guys by ingo http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2006/08/04/interesting-3d-desktop-metaphor-by-the-bumptopca-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-3 ingo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2006/08/04/interesting-3d-desktop-metaphor-by-the-bumptopca-guys/#comment-3 While it looks cool, the ideas appear to be pretty old. Peter Merholz (from Adaptive Path) gives a couple of links to classic papers in this blog post: <a href="http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2006/06/22/youve-got-piles/">http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2006/06/22/youve-got-piles/</a> While it looks cool, the ideas appear to be pretty old. Peter Merholz (from Adaptive Path) gives a couple of links to classic papers in this blog post: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2006/06/22/youve-got-piles/

]]> Comment on Interesting 3D Desktop Metaphor by the bumptop.ca guys by Tor Lillqvist http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2006/08/04/interesting-3d-desktop-metaphor-by-the-bumptopca-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Tor Lillqvist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2006/08/04/interesting-3d-desktop-metaphor-by-the-bumptopca-guys/#comment-2 No, you were not the last one to see that ;)<p/>I dunno how useful that would be for the whole desktop as such. (Heck, I much prefer the shell anyway, I very seldom use Explorer (when on Windows) and even less often use Nautilus (when on GNOME)...)<p/>But for *applications* that manipulate collections of for instance photographs, I definitely see interaction like that being very useful. f-spot? Apple's Aperture already has something vaguely in the same direction, I think. No, you were not the last one to see that ;)

I dunno how useful that would be for the whole desktop as such. (Heck, I much prefer the shell anyway, I very seldom use Explorer (when on Windows) and even less often use Nautilus (when on GNOME)…)

But for *applications* that manipulate collections of for instance photographs, I definitely see interaction like that being very useful. f-spot? Apple’s Aperture already has something vaguely in the same direction, I think.

]]> Comment on Up a creek with a paddle by Barry Wayne Cheskaty http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2005/06/08/up-a-creek-with-a-paddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1 Barry Wayne Cheskaty Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gekker/2005/06/08/up-a-creek-with-a-paddle/#comment-1 Gary, I enjoyed seeing your pictures. Looks like it takes some hair to do that! I looked you up because I thought perhaps you were my cousin Gary Ekker, son of Riter & Elora Ekker of Hanksville, Utah. Are you Gary Craig Ekker, son of Gary & Maedell? My mother, Julia, is one of the original twelve children of Cornelius & Edna Ekker. Gary, I enjoyed seeing your pictures. Looks like it takes some hair to do that! I looked you up because I thought perhaps you were my cousin Gary Ekker, son of Riter & Elora Ekker of Hanksville, Utah. Are you Gary Craig Ekker, son of Gary & Maedell? My mother, Julia, is one of the original twelve children of Cornelius & Edna Ekker.

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