[Process] Castles in the Sky (was: RE: [Design] Why 3D?)

[Arnulv Rudland]

Brian Siano wrote:

>
> Frankly, a lot of the conversation on this list heads off
> into some intense
> thickets that may not need to be untangled. There's the 3D
> interface chat. Then
> there's the ever-growing list of features for handling email,
> with every
> possible contingency being planned for, like proper
> threading. And then there's
> the attempt to devise a Platonic "task," which will cover
> every possible task
> from "buying groceries" to "coordinating assembly of Boeing 747."

Brian,

I think your're right, but I don't see it as a problem at the moment.

Chandler is still vapor-ware. The good thing about that is that the feature
set is far from frozen. And thanks to Mitch for involving the public before
everything is settled!

To me it seems that we are all using the current lack of substance in
Chandler very crwatively to do some really amazing brainstorming on what
could be in there, which fancy features would make sense, etc. We are at the
moment building castles in the sky. Building Castles in the Sky have some
great atributes:

	a) They are for free
	b) They are Visions
	c) You don't have to cara about gravity and statics
	d) and most of all - They are visions

Gravity will catch us soon enough. Until then it makes a lot of fun! The
worst thing that cann happen is that these ideas end up as use-cases for
things that will never make it into Chandler.

I'd like to stress that I'm very serious about the brainstorming - Through
the brainstorming we get a multitude of different ideas up to the surface in
a very short time. Some of them just crazy, some dirt dry pragmatic, but
they all trigger further ideas the time.

IMO the real discussion is going on beneath the surface and the actual
arguments -
How can we make Chandler as
	comfortable
		and easy to use
			and easy to configure
				and easy to extend through plugins
	etc.
as possible,

- all at the same time, targeting all kinds of people from the eagle-style
typing occasoinal user through the efficiency-minded secretary to the
full-blooded geek. This is the real challenge. (CHAllenging Network
Documentation Learning ExpeRience? :-)

3D interfaces, anti-gravity-devices and all other sorts of gadgets are IMO
used as vehicles for this _real_ discussion, to which no-one has _the_
definite answer. Iff I had, I would probably be very, very, rich now. Which
I - sorry to say - am not ;-)

Regards,

Arnulv Rudland

P.S.

It's probably better to move this part of the discussion to the
Process-List, so I'm Cross-pOsting there.