Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by dcuthbertson on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:51PM
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It's horrible. I used the Inspect feature and changed the font for the "seriouscopy" class to Arial. It's much more readable. Why would anyone ever use HelveticaNeueUltraLight?!
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by olivierestsage on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:22PM
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Indeed. The website doesn't seem to exist any longer, so I chose an old archive (2010). I seem to remember the formatting being better in a more recent one, but I can't find it.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by reaperducer on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:23PM
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I can't see myself using this for actual work, but it does look pretty.
I use Cool Retro Term (CRT) for actual work. I find the PET font soothing. I also use it for certain types of tasks, so if, out of the corner of my eye, I see lots of text scrolling along, then my mind processes it as "Something's gone pear-shaped with Task X" without having to look at the other monitors.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by gerdesj on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:58AM
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Quite. $ yay -S edex-ui-git (wait quite a while!) click on entry on menu item.
It looks amazing and will be trotted out at the next available opportunity. Luckily I have a fair bit of CPU in this laptop because that and Teams take their toll. Fan: take the strain ...
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by gtm1260 on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:55PM
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Absolutely sick! Definitely I'll say its not the most usable, but some of the features make a ton of sense! Like having an active finder window thats always in the directory of your terminal, so great! Also +1 to having no configuration to get to a sweet looking setup.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by wegs on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:26PM
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Neat!
In contrast to previous toys I've seen like this, EDEX-UI seems to have a bunch of good ideas. It's not something I'd use yet, but it's close. The idea of showing files in my current working directory is good. There's a bunch of other stuff that's good. And then there's a bunch of stuff that's a useless waste of screenspace.
But I could totally see myself replacing the useless stuff with things I care about:
* System status (computer thermals, connected USB devices, Bluetooth, Wifi, audio devices, etc.)
* Weather and time across places I interact with
Etc.
Key thing would be a simple extension API, where I can add the things I care about with a 5 minute learning curve.
I'd be glad to toss something like that up on one monitor.
I use a tiling window manager, but it doesn't support general tiling of the type needed to make everything an appropriate size, like this thing does.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by severak_cz on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:44AM
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There is recreation of classic 80s computerised synthetiser system (which was) called Fairlight CMI. It has interesting hybrid GUI which is controlled both by the command line or mouse in the same time. Lot of retro sci-fi vibes.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by foobazzy on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:32AM
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Ha! Had it installed just to play around with (I imagine that is what this is for). My laptops fan wouldn't stop running below 4000rpm as long as this was in the foreground.
Edit: But I do agree that the configuration was pretty easy. If you wanted to move stuff around and make it look a certain other way, it was really simple to do that.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by bch on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:57PM
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Surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet, but “FUI” (fantasy user interface) embodies a lot of the “candy” on display here. Fun to see on reddit[0] or YouTube.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by tywkeene on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:53PM
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I know I love a good opportunity to waste a little time with novel software. It's hard to describe, but it brings me a feeling of joy
This is really neat, I was actually surprised that it "just worked". Usually, as others have pointed out, you have to sacrifice a few goats and utter the forbidden ancient incantations before novelty pieces like this will work at all.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by bmitc on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:26PM
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I just last night watched the below video that covers the code that shows up on Dennis Nedry's computer screen in Jurassic Park. Turns out it's only example code they put up on screen, but this type of stuff is always interesting. The way movies get made is so intriguing!
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by oneplane on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:34PM
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Nice replication of the Tron theme! Perhaps this can actually do something unexpected like feed actual working experience back in to the realm of the Sci-Fi UX designers to let them know how much of it doesn't work, but let them know about the things that do. Still looks and feels great.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by Animats on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:17PM
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Cool, but impractical.
Someone should do a practical one for an overview of what all your containers and AWS accounts are doing. AWS monitoring provides a reason for a map of the world with lines and markers. There are AWS monitoring tools which, with better color choices, would look like something from Hollywood. Dynatrace is almost there.[1]
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by apocalyptic0n3 on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:41AM
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This is so cool. The Tron Legacy OS interface is one of the most sci-fi looking realistic interfaces I can remember seeing. Really awesome to be able to play with it locally, even if it isn't really a practical terminal compared to iTerm.
Re:EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
by kleer001 on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:36AM
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Gorgeous. As a computer artist myself I can see that work and balances put into this. I'm quite excited to check it out and fiddle with it. The extensibility is especially endearing.
First, there are a few write-ups of the fictional UI(s) used in The Martian:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/30473933/The-Martian-UI-Scre...
https://medium.com/territory-film/ui-stories-the-martian-eff...
Second, I think this blog on sci-fi typography may be interesting to those reading this thread:
https://typesetinthefuture.com/
Usually these flashy Hollywood-OS terminals require a bunch of work before they look even slightly like the example image used by the developer.
I can't see myself using this for actual work, but it does look pretty. Maybe I could use it during a presentation :)
I use Cool Retro Term (CRT) for actual work. I find the PET font soothing. I also use it for certain types of tasks, so if, out of the corner of my eye, I see lots of text scrolling along, then my mind processes it as "Something's gone pear-shaped with Task X" without having to look at the other monitors.
https://jstn.tumblr.com/post/8692501831
It looks amazing and will be trotted out at the next available opportunity. Luckily I have a fair bit of CPU in this laptop because that and Teams take their toll. Fan: take the strain ...
In contrast to previous toys I've seen like this, EDEX-UI seems to have a bunch of good ideas. It's not something I'd use yet, but it's close. The idea of showing files in my current working directory is good. There's a bunch of other stuff that's good. And then there's a bunch of stuff that's a useless waste of screenspace.
But I could totally see myself replacing the useless stuff with things I care about:
* System status (computer thermals, connected USB devices, Bluetooth, Wifi, audio devices, etc.)
* Weather and time across places I interact with
Etc.
Key thing would be a simple extension API, where I can add the things I care about with a 5 minute learning curve.
I'd be glad to toss something like that up on one monitor.
I use a tiling window manager, but it doesn't support general tiling of the type needed to make everything an appropriate size, like this thing does.
Keep pushing. I think you're onto something.
See http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/06/30/fairlight-cmi-i...
... are there non-nerds using this? ;)
Edit: But I do agree that the configuration was pretty easy. If you wanted to move stuff around and make it look a certain other way, it was really simple to do that.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/
This is really neat, I was actually surprised that it "just worked". Usually, as others have pointed out, you have to sacrifice a few goats and utter the forbidden ancient incantations before novelty pieces like this will work at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2Vkgsams0
You could replicate it with FVWM and using a 10th of the resources.
Inb4 Enlightenment back in the day, E16 used not as much as resources as this, even E21 is far snappier than ruling an NPM based desktop.
Someone should do a practical one for an overview of what all your containers and AWS accounts are doing. AWS monitoring provides a reason for a map of the world with lines and markers. There are AWS monitoring tools which, with better color choices, would look like something from Hollywood. Dynatrace is almost there.[1]
[1] https://cdn.comparitech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dynat...
I could've sworn I'd seen a similar dashboard, but web-based. Can't find it... anyone know/remember?