Grape: a New Desktop

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I love learning new metaphors for the desktop, although, all I can think right now is that cognitive dissonance would set in with this a little too easily. Even more quickly than what we have today for a desktop.

I do think it would be interesting to see how this model fits different types of people. Great example of an app that should be usability tested, as in http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html.

And this quote (from a recent thread here) I think applies just as well to desktops as it does to languages: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing"

a stacking app would help me, I already make littleclusters of icons on my normal desktop to keep then organized by type.

Props for trying something different, but this is not solving a problem.

Neither does "Amor Vincit Omnia", not all value derives from problem-solving.

Organization isn't a problem?

Yes, it is... I guess I'm knocking it because it isn't exactly what I want, which is something that completely eliminates the desktop metaphor in favor of giving me exactly what I want whenever I want it. A desktop where a Spotlight-like tool was the main way of interaction would go a long way towards this goal.

I don't want a desktop because I don't want to manage files. It seems unnecessary.

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