Still a gtkrc file is already css in a sense. The benefit of css would mainly be that a designer can use a syntax that he already knows. There would still be the same GTK classes and style properties. I'm more curious about separating logic and presentation on a deeper level, like with XUL.
so, slap a webserver at the bottom, stack some php and databases in there, then let the users mashup the interface as much as they like?
I wasn't really thinking of mashups, more from the viewpoint of a graphic/useraction designer.
well i have to say that i have held a interest in allowing the user to restructure a gui and even bring multiple apps into the same gui for some time.
even more so if one could do it across a network or maybe usb, as then each device could run its own app and get a central gui to manage them all. bye bye driver issues...
technically whats being discussed here already exists
haven't all the main players (mac/vista/igoogle even hildon etc) now got widgets and things that you can use to mashup your desktop interface in custom ways using data from random sparse sources?
technically whats being discussed here already exists
haven't all the main players (mac/vista/igoogle even hildon etc) now got widgets and things that you can use to mashup your desktop interface in custom ways using data from random sparse sources?
not to my knowledge and not without having to break out a compiler...
or are you referring to stuff like the vista sidebar?
yes,
goto http://www.google.com/ig and customise your own window.
You or I might not have the mojo to design the themes for the apps, but others have.
theres a wide assortment of apps with totally different interfaces which talk to the same data.
Ummm... Hmmm... Maybe. No, not really. They all want to make money too.
heh, i dont fault them for wanting to make money as long as they allow the user to do strange things with the product after a sale (unlike some fruit we all know about).
Yeah -- and that's really cool (seriously) -- but I was referring to making that idea more like what's been discussed about 3D desktop spaces.
-T.
And I was talking about that, but from a different angle - You can refer to the success (or the lack of it) of all the web based desktops. Opera speed dial (and clones) is just an entrance to the web, but how many want a desktop IN the pages they visit (especially if it is a 3D one). I can see the point of information sites and mashups like netvibes.com (i even designed a similar site), but a whole desktop? (brrr, I can stand only one )
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