To be fair to LCARS it doesn’t follow the application window pattern modern graphic OSs do, so it’s not surprising that hammering a windowing system to make it look like LCARS is not efficient. It’s supposed to display smart contextual widgets which are more akin to Grafana mixed with home screen/desktop widgets with maybe a dash of what Microsoft was trying to do with live tiles on Windows 8.
I remember first trying Linux because there was some kind of KDE plugin (or maybe Gnome) that basically made the thing LCARS.
It also showed just how bad LCARS is as an efficient OS. 🤣
To be fair to LCARS it doesn’t follow the application window pattern modern graphic OSs do, so it’s not surprising that hammering a windowing system to make it look like LCARS is not efficient. It’s supposed to display smart contextual widgets which are more akin to Grafana mixed with home screen/desktop widgets with maybe a dash of what Microsoft was trying to do with live tiles on Windows 8.
It was recursive menus and not like a normal window thing. Like, it didn’t work like a normal OS GUI with icons and windows and stuff.
It wasn’t, however, contextual. It was just like browsing files in a folder via a command line, but prettier.
Could probably be done better today.