It looks nice. But while making desktop work look like a science fiction movie means making work fun, but not necessarily useful in accomplishing a task more effectively, sometimes it means the opposite. I think Terminology augmented with non-distracting custom animated background, soundscapes (generated with nodal or noatikl), leds or ambient lightning designed to enhance specific autodetected tasks based on issue type (bug fixing, adding feature, writing documentation, writing e-mails etc) similar to mindmachines with either a touch or a gesture oriented interface within an AR or VR context including tactile and haptic feedback. Typing can be done with a chording interface on a ergonomic keyboard layout, either braille, stenoknight or regular dvorak (with the letter I and U switched) - or mapped to a 10 or 25 switch operated by gestures, brainwaves (openeeg, neurosky or emotiv devices) or gloves. http://www.wired.com/2015/01/ibrailler-ipad-app/

The output would be multi-modal, text to speeching the output on demand with specific key or voice bindings and default using a narrow Braille font so the display could be simultanously felt and seen (with contrast) or for example OLED coated braille pins. In this way also blind people can use the setup. For a general idea: http://www.tactisplay.com/product/tactisplay-table

Inspired by Tron: Legacy? See the first few screenshots at http://jtnimoy.com/blogs/projects/14881671-tron-legacy

Wow, there's some amazing work in that article.

I love this kind of stuff. FUI for film is usually done in video editing software... But I keep waiting to see realtime FUI become the norm.

And I often wonder if practical UX can be created with that GMUNK / Ash Thorpe / Lorcan O'Shanahan aesthetic.

Find more inspiration here: http://reddit.com/r/fui

This looks like the top post ever on /r/unixporn. Altho it's 8 months old.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/2sz5xo/bspwmofxoc...

(Disclaimer: I spent like 4 seconds on the Dex site)

Well, it _is_ the same thing as in the post you linked. The user is /u/nnkd and the development log is located at nnkd.org ... One might jump to conclusions here :)

"trying to escape the traditional window focused desktop environment with this project"

I lol'd!

(Because somehow I still tend to much more associate words like "newfangled" with "window focused desktop environments", rather than the word "traditional". I know it's been a long time. The brain is a strange thing.)

Looks awesome. Does anyone know of any other similar projects?

You could use conky for the desktop widgets, then plop in a terminal window and you have most of what you see here.

I can't help it, this made me think of a thread from the comic strip User Friendly from a few years back: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010111

When I saw your comment, I thought you were going to post this one instead: http://okcancel.com/comic/3.html

Its funny how a decade+ old comic can still be relevant.

Sometimes it feels like IT is all about coming up with the same solutions in new languages/frameworks...

I hope this is named after the DEX cyborgs in Romantically Apocalyptic.

http://romanticallyapocalyptic.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot

Looks cool. I would prefer larger text, though.

So it's an absolutely inflexible tiling window manager with an on-screen keyboard.

Hello htop.