Call to arms! A new GUI for Linux

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Aaron Vegh wrote:
[snip]
> I have begun a project called Dark Sun Linux. It's goal is to create a
> new GUI for the Linux desktop. It walks away from the "desktop"
> metaphor of files and folders and trashcans, of icons strewn on the
> desktop, of windows piled on top of windows.
>
> Instead, Dark Sun proposes to abstract the computing experience and
> cut its ties with the limiting metaphor; instead it'll be a system of
> drawers and trays,

      Aren't those just different names for files and folders?

> where files are kept by their applications,

      I thought you were not going to use files.

      And, if you are, who says a file can have only one application?

> where the user knows exactly where everything is because it's _right
> there_, and where the keyboard is king.

      Where is "right there"?

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