Seigo: on the impending future of ui greatnesses

On his blog, KDE hacker Aaron Seigo disagrees with the idea that the desktop as we know it is likely to disappear. "Now, our way of writing applications for "the desktop" may change over the next decade, but the desktop will still be with us. People will still want a way to launch their apps, manage the shapes they appear in on the screen (aka "windows", since I assume that HTML5CloudAwesomeness doesn't mean "everything is fullscreen with one app at a time" for most people), will want to place these HTML5CloudAwesomenesses around their screen (aka "desktop widgets"), etc. That could, indeed, be written in HTML and [Javascript], but it will still exist. [...] So what appears inside of our windows may change in the form of where some or all of the data being manipulated is stored and/or what language is used to write them .. but it will still be a lot like a laptop computer."

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