Re: cairo backend status

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 8/16/06, Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> wrote:
> Am 16.08.2006 um 10:42 schrieb Rogelio Serrano:
>
> > Applications
> > dont matter to me anymore. all i want to see are documents. when i log
> > in i want to see the document im working on yesterady. when i look for
> > the document about the email search optimisiations then i get that
> > right away without rememebering if it was an email or not.
>
> Interesting approach.
>
> As you obviously still have to run programs to access your documents,
> you have to tell them how to store the intermediate state of their
> document. An excellent addition, even from the traditional point of
> view, IMHO.

Yes apps have to be running but user dont have to handle it. I think
nextstep was designed at one point to do this very elegantly.

i think the opendoc designer gave a hint how to do improve on opendoc
and i think it must be looked up very agressively. again nextstep had
a very elegant solution for this at one point.

there are a lot of hints in the papers written by early apple employees.

--
things i hate about my linux pc:

1. it takes more than a second to boot up
2. keeps asking about filenames and directories
3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday
4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made
5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself