Metisse 0.4.0-rc4

Metisse [1, 2] is an X-based window system designed with two goals in mind. First, it should make it easy for HCI researchers to design and implement innovative window management techniques Second, it should conform to existing standards and be robust and efficient enough to be used on a daily basis, making it a suitable platform for the evaluation of the proposed techniques.

Metisse is not focused on a particular kind of interaction (e.g. 3D) and should not be seen as a new desktop proposal. It is rather a tool for creating new types of desktop environments.

Metisse is being developed by O. Chapuis & N. Roussel, two members of the In Situ project. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Resources

Metisse Home Page
Install and Run Mini Howto: local, web
Using Mini Howto: local, web

References

[1] O. Chapuis and N. Roussel. Metisse is not a 3D desktop! In Proceedings of UIST'05, the 18th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 13-22, October 2005. ACM Press. [ACM] [Google] [2] N. Roussel and O. Chapuis. Metisse : un système de fenêtrage hautement configurable et utilisable au quotidien. In Proceedings of IHM 2005, 17ème conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, pages 279-282, Septembre 2005. ACM Press, International Conference Proceedings Series. [ACM] [Google] [3] W. Stuerzlinger, O. Chapuis, D. Phillips and N. Roussel. User Interface Façades: Towards Fully Adaptable User Interfaces. In Proceedings of UIST'06, the 19th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 309-318, October 2006. ACM Press. [ACM] [Google]

Acknowledgements

This work has been partially supported by the French ACI Masses de données (Micromégas project, 2003-2006).