Short Hiatus
I will be on short hiatus for three weeks until I can resort some personal issues. For now, please take a look through links on the sidebar.
Have a good April!
Why Ribbon Looks Promising
Microsoft’s current Office interface, the “Ribbon”, was a radical new approach to an interface, essentially removing File, Edit, View, et cetera, and replacing it with
a new method of displaying all the tools needed to get the job done, by putting them into neat little sections, that are tabbed, and put [...]
Interface Guidelines
With each interface you come across, you have a different guideline set up (if this interface wants to stay consistent) and many of the popular GUIs (Windows, OS X, and Linux interfaces) all have their own guidelines to follow through with. Here are several resources regarding interfaces on some of the more popular ones:
GNOME
Tango Icon [...]
Cairo Shell Alternative Promises to Increase Productivity
Cairo is a [wikipedia]desktop shell replacement[/wikipedia] currently being developed for Windows XP and Vista that’ll feature an entirely new graphical user interface that, at first glance, appears reminiscent to Macintosh OS X Leopard, but with many Windows influences. It features a [wikipedia]Cover Flow[/wikipedia]-like viewer of content, a new taskbar with new ways of opening [...]
Welcome to PROTOdesktop!
Welcome to PROTOdesktop. This site was made to introduce content about desktop interfaces (be it graphical or command-line, or both) and news regarding current and future software suited for the purpose of desktop presentation. I’m looking forward to bringing news and information to the site.
Let’s get started!