= What Lobotomy Project is =
The Lobotomy Project is an effort to produce a completly new general purpose graphical computing system, based on a different concept of "file" and a new paradigm for user interface. Its distruptive architecture spawns from the filesystem rappresentation (where the hierarchic tree is substituted by a relational database) to the applications layer (in which, at least, "applications" simply doesn't exist and are replaced by a unique coherent interface adapted on demand).

Probably the easier and most familiar term to define the target product is "desktop environment", given that Lobotomy rappresents not a desktop and is not an environment. Rather, the main goal is to explore a different way to store, manage and rappresent information, dropping most of facilities inherited in more than twenty years of use, reuse and abuse of the classical "desktop metaphore".

The aim of this work is not to build something which can compete with classical KDE or Gnome environments, but to inspect new solutions for everyday computing and play with them, hoping to produce code or concepts easily reusable from other people. No design studies or usability tests or accademic knowledge is here applied: just common sense, and influence from a lot of different past, present, future, living or death other projects or concepts.

Randomly collected FAQ are [wiki:LobotomyFAQ here] available. The full history of the project is listed [wiki:LobotomyHistory here].