New 3D Windows GUI (3rd party)

[Nowhere]

fsv <- this looks very useful. Personally I can't think of better/more natural visualisation of file/directory structure, I guess...(but I think it could be done in 2d...some isometric view perhaps with nice scaling)
And you can have interface from Jurrasic Park

3D-Desktop - and this at least looks as it can be used in day-to-day usage. Although not very usefull above what we have...maybe just greater aestetic.

[leech]

I think I like that fsv, that's pretty sweet looking. Well, ok, it's not all flashy graphics or anything, but it acutally looks USEFUL.

I can see MS going the route that Technoid is saying. After all, when you first install Windows XP, what does it tell you when you first try to open your C: drive through My Computer? "You shouldn't look at your own files, let us handle that..." Or something to that effect. All I can say is, FSCK you MS

Of course the comment about most people have a hard time telling the difference between their harddrive and their cd-rom... well *nix has never really had drive letters. The directory structure (for those who would read something for once) is really very simple. I mean it's real hard to figure out what /boot or /lib is for.

Leech

[Nowhere]

Another interesting thing.

XCruiser

[Technoid]

Set course for IO.SYS, warp 8, engage!

[Paddy]

OMG That is naff

I want to try it

[mallowman]

I messed around with fsv and xcruiser a while ago. Once a very long time ago I actually used 3D File System Navigator (the program from jurassic park) on an old Indy. I thought they were interesting but not terribly useful. My biggest thing was that if you had some files or directories that were fairly large, they crowded out the smaller ones so that they were too small to click on.

According to <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30670.html">this article</a> initial impressions of WinFS were exaggerated, and it will really be more like a fancy shmancy indexing service. Of course we will have to wait until longhorn is actually finished to know for sure.