Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:44:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, alk@Think.COM, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lesstif (motif compatible) package. Message-ID: <199604122044.NAA02387@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960412104438.1803A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Apr 12, 96 10:49:16 am
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> > > I know, you're now going to come back with the argument that one can > > > trivially write a blah blah blah widget in Motif (probably using the > > > word "virtualize" at least once :-) but that's not the point - I don't > > > WANT to have to write custom frobs for Motif each time I want to > > > display a triangular button or a flipping-page widget or whatever, nor > > > do I want to have to reinvent the generalized canvas widget there. > > > > Wrongo. I'm going to say that using custom frobs is bad, and that > > if you need a triangular button, your user interface design is bad. > > If you succeed in creating your little triangle, where in the users > > previous training does the information on how to use it come from? > > No. Triangular (and round and square) buttons are all the same. In some > places the triangular ones should be used (in an application which > presents the user with a real world like remote control thingy?). What do > you think the scrollbar buttons have arrows on them? > > I don't think a triangular button makes the usage any harder if it used > it in a place which wins from it. Those places are where they are analogs to existung real-word controls, and there aren't that many places where an aleegorical interface is useful. This goes back to my other question -- what does a physical instead of a software word processor look like, such that you could design the software version s an analog? Most of the problems solved in software are *only* solved in software, and have *no* real world analogs. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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