Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:34:46 -0800 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NatWest? no thanks Message-ID: <3BE6DBC6.5A985010@acuson.com> References: <20011102090253.G795-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> <3BE2EF8D.4CB9A508@acuson.com> <63zo63brsq.o63@localhost.localdomain> <15332.18917.367328.996483@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > If you haven't, find a copy of Raskin's "The Humane Interface", and > read it. He argues - quite convincingly - that the real problem is > that people are being offered applications at all. It's silly to have > to start a "word processor" to deal with a document with words in it > vs. having to start a "drawing program" to deal with a document with > graphics in it when the operations on the two things are fundamentally > the same: add, select, cut, copy, paste and set properties. OpenDoc on OS/2 Warp, now there was a humane interface. Problem is that the software companies aren't selling interfaces, they're selling applications. It's going to be up to us non-commercial Open Source types to take the best ideas of OS/2, RISCOS, and others and combine them into a human interface. Unfortunately we seem too obsessed with creating WIMP++ to have time to break the mold and start over. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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