Re: SEUL: a new operating system interaction

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:57:19 +0200, Lorenzo De Tomasi <deto@working.it> wrote:
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> An interface of this type can be easily created with a program like
> Macromedia director...
> I'm not a programmer and Im able to create it with MD...
> If you want to realise this I can test the interaction and give you some
> hints...
> Or do you want I project the entire interaction?
> The idea is good...
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> Robert Hopcroft wrote:
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>> Lorenzo De Tomasi wrote:
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>> > I'm a student of graphic design and design of interfaces at Politecnico
>> > di Milano (Italy).
>> > If you want I can help you to create graphics  (logo, icons, cursors,
>> > poiters, etc) and interaction for a new operating system interface based
>> > on Linux...
>> > I have some ideas for a good and simple interaction...
>> >
>> > I'm waiting for an answer... :)
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>> I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind, so I thought I would throw
>> something out and get your reaction to it. I also sent this to seul-edu to
>> get their reaction as well. On a windows machine, I saw a background ( I
>> believe that's what they call it) of a periodic table of the chemical
>> elements. My first thought was wouldn't it be neat to be able to click on
>> an element and have displayed information about the element. By adding the
>> digits, one could, for example, click on H, 2, O and get the properties of
>> water. It doesn't take that much imagination to turn it into a Chemistry
>> course. Would producing an interface such as this be of interest to you.
>>
>> Bob
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