Re: Of applications and documents

[David Adam Bordoley]

Pascal Bourguignon writes: 

> How plan  you to make  it more successful  than the Lisa  (ancestor of
> Macintosh) or the OpenDoc architecture? 
>
> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/Legacy/OpenDoc/opendoc.html

Open doc was an idea ahead of its time. 

Its pretty clear to me that the application metaphor doesn't scale well at 
all once you amass a large number of different tasks (see the windows start 
menu for instance), plus from a user stand point its much more natural to 
approach using a computer by manipulating the data as oppose to using 
programs (for instance a view of your music should always provide a music 
playing interface, as oppose to needing to start a music playing app). 

How do I plan to make it more succesful. Well by making it work of course :) 
Simply implementing another windows/mac clone seems pretty silly to me, 
clearly gnome and kde have already for the most part succeeded at that (for 
better or worst), linuxstep/gnustep on the other hand, really have a chance 
to truly create a new and much more usable system. Anyway my words are 
really more for encouragement and the hope that linuxstep can really become 
something better than the rest :) 

dave