RE: Running vs starting apps

[David Grega <webmaster overtech zzn com>]

If you wanted complexity and difficulty, wouldn't you be on command line 
interfaces and not a GUI interface?

A agree, radical change is not easy but look at Microsoft did when they 
made up the Win95 GUI.  They left the old program manager GUI on the system 
until you could adjust to the newer interface.  Of course, MS should have 
allowed novices to get at ProgMan.exe easier than going through a mess of 
folders to find it.  If we do go for a totally radical concept then having 
a clone of the old interface on the system would be a good idea - even if 
it is just for a single version.

- Dave
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From:  Alan
Sent:  Friday, November 24, 2000 12:13 PM
To:  Calum Benson
Cc:  gnome-gui-list gnome org
Subject:  Re: Running vs starting apps


On 24-Nov-2000 Calum Benson wrote:
>> "sims" interface (mentioned earlier by delmar I belive).  I'm not saying 
use
>> *the* sims interface, but just something totally new like that.
>
> Microsoft Bob, anyone?  :o)

Well, make something new and make it *not* suck ass :)

Of course, on the other hand I sort of like the complexity of *nix....
something complicated shouldn't be point and click IMHO, which is why I use
linux and not macos or windows (there's probably something inherantly male
about liking complicated things and fighting through them to make things 
work,
but I digress..).

It has a lot to do with familiarity.... if you know how to deal with things
like titlebars, windows, window closing and minimizing as 99% of computer 
users
are used to when in a GUI, a radical change won't really be quick to appear
since everyine is comfortable doing things the "old" way.  It would be
interesting to take someone who has NEVER used a computer before and find 
out
how they would interact with a machine.  Not how would they deal with 
windows
or documents, but how would they interact and what would they use it for. 
 Just
a thought :)  I'm sure tests like this have occured before.

There's also the star trek universe way of dealing with computers.  Not
interacting with them but just using them for information.

Oh well, time to work anyway :)

--
Alan Bailward -=><=- <alan ufies org> -=><=-http://arcterex.net
"You don't go out and kick a mad dog.  If you have a mad dog with rabies, 
you
take a gun and shoot him."
-- Pat Robertson, TV Evangelist, about Muammar Kadhafy


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