thegoaliezone (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

well i see it being a good thing if worked on a little bit. i have been a linux user for 11 years and the stride linux has made in those years is formidable and i just want to thank all the developers and volunteers for their time for thisi like it i can see the real world use of this app

seriouslycgi (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

sketchpad pro type of interface would be nice in gimp too

muttwalks (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

As a fairly heavy GIMP user, I would LOVE to use this. To put the tools I want on the image I'm working on would save me lots of alt-tabbing to the toolbox and back. This looks very useful to me.

olllj (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

F for Flexibility.

UrsusMorologus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Could be useful for building app toolbars in the first place. IE, provide a stock set of widgets (text, graphics, etc) in the main GUI and let apps build toolbars from that pool.

DannoHung (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I think it's rather clever, and a good deal more worthwhile than the "WOW LOOK! EYECANDY!" things people seem to be doing with XGL.

tomismusic (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

While this is a great achievement technically, it's real-world usefulness is rather slim. It would obviously add a great deal of complexity, and a minimum of users would actually utilize it. There are much more important projects to be spending one's time programming; such as creating standards for all Linux distributions to follow. Until the time when Linux becomes standardized, it will be just a useless geeks toy to the rest of the world.

nevenmrgan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

That's a very neat tech demo, and I can see the usefullness of such easy UI manipulation in some specialized fields. However, I wouldn't want it to invade my userland. I'm a tinkerer, and having too many options decreases my productivity. That's why I'm a Mac user - most decisions have been made for me, and I agree with them. I just want to use my computer for things other than... tinkering with my computer.

kyriakosk (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The problem is that real world users dont bother with customizing their user interface. They simply learn to use what they find. How many people have you seen customizing toolbars and menus in office? Funcionality to do that has been there for a long time and its hardly being used.

Meatshoes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I love seeing ideas that push the boundaries of conventional thinking like these do. Hopefully some of these concepts will develop into something genuinely productive in the mainstream.