It would be nice in future to have a display that really emulate paper. One way to do this would be tu use micropumps to generate bumby areas. The surface should be able to go from matte to glossy on demand. I don’t know how to achieve this though. It would add a lot to the experience.

Other cool features to have would be :

• multiple native color space (rgb, cmyk, Ycr…)
• adaptative paper texture (souft, rought, recycled, bond, etc)
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I think it would make a computer screen that seriously rocks, think having the possibility of having the focused application glossy and raised, with the rest of the desktop would be lower and matte, possibility for games, tactile interaction, and the list goes on and on.

It owuld also make it a serious candidate for paper replacement, as designers would be able to use mostly the same set  features as paper design.

This is my first post from my Windows 7 Beta machine.

So far I really enjoy the changes in the interface. The settings are finally findable without getting to a read and guess and click marathon. The installation process is very straight forward, very few options are available on the beta verion, and when my desktop loaded for the first time, all my drivers was loaded and operationals.

Honestly, for the first time in my life, I would dare to say that the installation process of a Windows BETA was more easy than Ubuntu. It beats Linux in the installation process (at least on my machine) and so far Photoshop cannot run RELIABLY on Linux. I will just have to sit and for for a while I guess. Still, I am running FreeNAS as personnal home server…

I don’t see Apple and Microsoft settling on open API standard anytime soon. What the open source community really need, is a stable platform for software to target.

Here are what I think would help make every system great:

- Something that can run atop many operating systems
- A standard framework for settings which make them exportable/importable
- Make the programs aware of the technical level of your user so they can offer a proper interface

In brief, a framework so great that software vendors will have no other logical choices of target in the long term tan the open standard.

It is indeed a huge task to tackle, the key to realisation is getting everybody to adopt it and eventually move their software to it. That does not mean KDE and Gnome have to come to war or merge their project. It means the programmin interface should be harmonized and portable. KDE seems to have a good lead on that front. I would like software vendos jump the bandwagon of open source.

Bottom line is, the less I pay to get my system running, the more I can pay for specialized software.

With the tightening of the economy is another factor we need to look at. The sooner we invest in standardised open software, the sooner the it will be simple to manage and more economical, enabling small business to be more competitive. Instead of buying software, we hire engineers to setup and adapt existing code.

OpenSTEP died about 20 years ago, the yellow box seems to be abandoned by Apple. Will GnuSTEP really shines or do we need something new?

Posted from the near future (just enought apocalyptic) with the help of Windows 7 Beta.

• Resolved bug when gengo plugin is not present
• Add address destination
• Clear map and directions DIV before new search
• Make it cuter (balloons and form)
• !debug command for debug information window appear

 You can download it on the page: open-source-ideas.com/googlemapper.