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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
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Date: 21 Dec 88 21:25:06 GMT
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In article <257@gloom.UUCP> cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf) writes:
>What I would like to see is the desktop metaphor extended into 3D, say
>for example, an office.  You would have a desktop, a trashcan, a phone,
>an inbasket/outbasket, a filesystem, etc.  Each of the services that are 
>offered by the system are represented as an object in the office.  If you 
>go out through the door, you find yourself in the hall (network), and from 
>there can go into someone else's office (the outbasket & phone act in a 
>predictable manner).

Yes, but if I'm alternately working in my office and someone else's far away,
I want to be able to switch back and forth quickly.  How about teleport
booths instead of hallways?

(Sorry this isn't followed up to alt.cyberpunk, but Sun's news server
won't allow posting to alt groups.)

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@hanami.sun.com