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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <12417@garnet.BBN.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 88 00:40:56 GMT
References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <257@gloom.UUCP> <82702@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
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In comp.windows.misc, landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>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. . .
>
>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?

This is beginning to sound in some ways like a network-distributed version
of Rooms, the new "desktop thing" from ParcPlace.

If you haven't seen/heard of Rooms, you should look into it.  It presents 
you with multiple workspaces, called rooms, each of which contains the set 
of tools commonly used for doing some job (i.e., a collection of windows 
and programs).  There are doors for going from room to room, bags in which 
you can carry things from one room into another, and pockets in which you
can put things that you want to follow you around (like a clock, or your
phone) as you move from room to room.
--
 Matt Landau			Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
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