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[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Jeremy wrote:
> Very interesting, I wonder if some of these people have seen plasma, or
> kde4

Aza Raskin is somewhat aware, yes. we've chatted a few times.

as for his father ... well, he passed away, but his work (in particular The 
Humane Interface) was a source of major inspiration for me and the ideas that 
have been forming here.

the GUI command line stuff is one of those quiet undercurrents that's been 
going around for a few years now and is quite interesting. krunner is heavily 
inspired by these ideas; krunner is not particularly innovative (yet?). 
really i just needed something to replace the minicli from kdesktop and 
decided we may as well try to do something Better(tm) or even maybe 
Right(tm) .. i'm a big believer in this whole gui/cli concept, though, and 
where krunner goes beyond what is out there right now is in two important 
places:

* the plugins are available for anyone to use, it's not a 
cut-off-from-the-rest-of-the-world tool. quicksilver, katapult, gnome-do, 
deskbar .. they are all fairly sealed off. i think this is simply a case of 
not realizing the full possible scope. runners should become pervasive (e.g. 
kickoff, a plasmoid, perhaps even in other apps?)

* it's part of the default set up of a production desktop. pretty much all the 
other things out there are add ons. this is really one of the benefits of 
free software: we don't have to convince a huge company to try this out, we 
can just DO IT.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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