pyZui - anyone know about this?

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/17/2009 2:14 AM, Donn wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:03:19 David Roberts wrote:
>> It involves scaling an image to various resolutions, and partitioning
>> them into fixed-size tiles. It's roughly the same technique used by
>> Google Maps/Earth.
> Thanks. That gives me something to go on. Wikipedia didn't like my search
> terms.
>
>>> ZUIs are useful for particular types of data - images&  mapping
>>> especially - but I'd hate to have to navigate my desktop using its
>>> approach.
> Ever since Corel Draw in the 90's zoomed into my life I have been in love with
> the idea of an endless canvas that makes me feel like a satellite on a bungee
> cord. I think it would fit the desktop very well.
>
> Personally I see a merging of normal app windows and a zui: some kind of new
> window manager.

The original idea, perhaps, was from Jef Raskin in The Human Interface. 
Wikipedia has articles on both. His idea was for a document rather than 
app centric plain. Not clear how one would pipe data from app to app in 
his model, though.

tjr