Comments on: Psych Desktop soon to become more Lucid

By: Eiki

Eiki — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:26:01 +0000

Lucid is taken ;)
We already develop a commercial Java ERP/CRM/BPM product called IdegaWeb Lucid.

By: hbi

hbi — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:33:50 +0000

@Sembiance (and others):
Isn’t it a better idea to develop the application “in-place”? That is, inside the “webOS” and test it “in-place”, without download+install+develop+test+uppload?
In other words: develop+test and then publish.

Download+installation will probably require a webserver installed on your machine.

By: psychcf

psychcf — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:38:20 +0000

@Sembiance: We’re actually going to have an application/theme directory on our new site. Later, we’ll integrate it with the desktop itself, as you described.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:23:12 +0000

@Sembiance: isn’t this called iGoogle? ;)

By: Sembiance

Sembiance — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:49:22 +0000

It’s not bad! I’ve looked at a lot of AJAX OS’s, and this one is pretty good.
The #1 thing though that the web OS’s I’ve looked at have ALL failed to do (including Psych/Lucid) is having a common ‘Application Directory’.

You have a bunch of apps installed by default, but I think you really need to have one of the apps installed by default everywhere, is a ‘Install More Apps’ app.

I should be able to download the OS on my machine, develop a new application for it, and be able to submit it to an application directory.
This application should then be available for instant install on anyone else’s Lucid install through a ‘App Directory’ app.

In my honest opinion, this is the ONLY way any Web OS will ever ‘take’ off.

BTW, the app directory should have social features such as user reviews and a rating system. To weed out the good from the bad.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:12:43 +0000

This is actually a pretty nice environment. Snappy and functional. I’m still not convinced that putting a desktop inside a browser window is a good idea from a usability point of view (unless it’s easy to “undock” applications into truly separate browser windows). But if you think the paradigm is a good one, this seems like a good implementation of it.

By: psychcf

psychcf — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:16:42 +0000

I know this is a bit late, but our server is back up. It couldn’t handle the surge in traffic, I apologize.

Anyways, I’d like to add that we’re looking for contributors, so if you’re interested, feel free to ask.

By: broofa

broofa — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:15:31 +0000

Fail. http://www.psychdesktop.net/ is down – DB errors.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:52:42 +0000

Wish I could look at the demo, but php decides otherwise apparently.