THE GUI SHOULD BE BETTER

On 4/28/2023 at 6:46 PM, ConcreteKisses said:

I have some things to say about your posts, but I'd rather not get into long dead arguments, so I'll just say this.

I admire your restraint. I'm always up for debate and even being proven wrong, believe it or not. But in my experience the objective of most arguments is to just "win" by any means necessary, rather than learn from each other to help improve things for everyone. So I try to avoid them now, as they're mostly infuriating wastes of time.
 

On 4/28/2023 at 6:46 PM, ConcreteKisses said:

It's why I encourage you to make the research you've created into something tangible, to test it, to make it weird, to see what works, and then to make it less weird. If it didn't yield results for you, it may yield results for another, and that's what counts.

I have made tangible progress already. For starters I created my own improved version of Circle Dock, but I quickly learned that wasn't good enough. So I started a complete redesign from the ground up, which is already partly implemented, but it's a very ambitious project. So I put it on hold while I work on smaller, less intimidating projects in the meantime.
 

On 4/28/2023 at 6:46 PM, ConcreteKisses said:

The goal in making interfaces, at least for me, is to encourage customization and homebrew research, and hopefully a Cambrian explosion of folk design. The visions that exist for desktop customization, even in the most extravagant desktop modding circles, I've seen a depressing lack of invention in making interfaces truly theirs. I want to help make the tools to change that.

That's a great goal and I wish you the best of luck, but I think there are many good reasons why this hasn't happened yet. So it wont be easy. Godspeed my friend!

On 4/28/2023 at 6:46 PM, ConcreteKisses said:

I can't really elaborate on my solutions, as I'd much prefer to talk about it publicly once I have an actual demonstration released, and have that demo be replicable with moderate ease.

Smart move and pretty much the same thing I'm doing. In my experience concepts always sound better on paper and never work exactly like you think they will in practice. So first building actual working prototypes to dis/prove theories is absolutely critical.

I also think AI is going to become a major boon in driving innovation in all sorts of computer fields... if we don't enslave and/or kill ourselves with it first.
 

There might be something useful in here:
https://desktop.kerahq.com/

https://gitlab.com/kerahq/Kera-Desktop

Maybe I'm just blind, but has nobody mentioned AutoHotPie yet?

https://github.com/dumbeau/AutoHotPie

This topic consist of mostly just suggestions for possible GUI solutions (mostly for Linux) to the issues Ross' brought up in his video. So I'd really like to find out if anyone here has actually discovered and started using any real software/hardware solutions for Windows since the video came out? In other words, has anyone found some real, practical rather than theoretical solutions yet?

I've tried many existing GUI apps, but none of them have truly improved my efficiency or user experience on Windows. StrokesPlus.net was too much work to configure and learn, and Circle Dock proved cumbersome and lacking in features. So I was forced to look into developing my own custom solutions. However, other things came up, and I had to put such work on hold a few years back.

But I've recently come back to start work on a few new custom GUI tools again, specifically related to app and file management. As I've found the standard workflow for this kind of stuff utterly insufficient and slow. So I really need to make something better, but no idea how long this will take to develop.

successor to Fly-Pie

https://github.com/kando-menu/kando

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=ZTdfnUDMO9k

all right, this looks like something relevant:
https://github.com/eythaann/Seelen-UI

I use a versatile voice recognition program (think autohotkey but for voice activated) called Voiceattack. I'm not sure I like mouse gestures, since that requires some mouse movement. Instead of waving a magic wand, I just say incantations for what I need done instantly. You program your "spell" and "incantation" so that what you want done is done instantly if you prepared it beforehand. Plus, it's maximally ergonomically because it doesn't take away your hands. This is primarily for things like shortcuts because positioning has to be preprogrammed, but having a digital servant that does the heavy lifting at your call is quite nice.