One thing that bothers me about today’s UIs is window clutter. Sky OS is an interesting project.Īctually, there are lots of ways left to innovate using the existing input devices. They write the most efficient and complex graphics systems and more often than not, they design creative and useful interfaces.īut I digress, lets get back on topic. There is a lot we can learn from console game developers. That entails a complete redesign of application graphics and theme engines as well as graphic toolkits. For me a break through in graphic user interface application is when an application uses 0-10% of my resources when it not been used and a reasonable amount of my system resources when it use. The conclusion I’m trying to draw is that advances is graphic user interfaces should not primarily be based on looks and widget placements. Yes, that includes Mac OS X, the supposed epitome of graphic user interfaces. Graphic user interfaces are becoming bloated, obtrusive, confusing, complex, resource inefficient and just unusable. One would have thought as every other technology is proceeding towards nano-size management and manipulations, computer applications, interfaces and design methods would approach minimal resource usage and optimal efficiency.

It’s not just about how a graphic user interface looks or how it is arranged, but about how efficient, responsive and unobtrusive it is to users. I think open source has the resources to improve upon this inefficiency of this type of interface. Graphic user interfaces spend more than 90% of their time waiting for input/command from users while consuming valuable system resources.

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