I really like the idea of a web based desktop, but I would like to see innovation in the user interfaces of computers.
One idea I am playing with is the idea of "thunking" behaviours on a graphical user interface by chaining together operations, like a typed runqueue. You can interact immediately with what is on the screen but you are presented with options as if the operation was successful and then you can queue up the next thing based on the result of doing that.
EDIT: The idea is that we decouple updates of the GUI with execution and the types of the return values of previous operation. In other words, the types of every operation are known by the system in advance, so you know what data is available at any given point in time.
A desktop which is like a real time strategy game.
One idea I am playing with is the idea of "thunking" behaviours on a graphical user interface by chaining together operations, like a typed runqueue. You can interact immediately with what is on the screen but you are presented with options as if the operation was successful and then you can queue up the next thing based on the result of doing that.
EDIT: The idea is that we decouple updates of the GUI with execution and the types of the return values of previous operation. In other words, the types of every operation are known by the system in advance, so you know what data is available at any given point in time.
A desktop which is like a real time strategy game.