Re: Questions

[Jared White <jwhite sonic net>]

On Monday, May 21, 2001, at 12:29 PM, Eric Lemings wrote:

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> Lastly, will the GNOME user interface "reinvent the wheel" or reuse
> existing and proven models?

Are they really "proven"? Or are they just existing? I can't help but 
feel that in most case today's user interfaces are woefully inadequate 
for getting the job done quickly and efficiently. I know you can't do 
graphics or multi-media production on a command line, but why can a lot 
of people get certain kinds of work done more quickly at a command line 
if they're used to it than in a GUI?

I personally think KDE and GNOME are WAY-Y-Y too similar to Windows and 
Mac OS. Linux needs to have its own way of doing things -- not just some 
Frankenstein  mismash of everyone else's ideas. I'd really like to see a 
complete break from current X Windows paradigms -- maybe even leave X 
Windows behind altogether -- and have some completely new interface 
concepts put on the table. I won't attempt to make any suggestions here, 
but I have a few basic ideas rolling around in my head that I might 
share with y'all at some future date.

I could be wrong, but I have the feeling that a lot of people think the 
prevailing GUI of today is the best it can be simply because nobody's 
come up with anything else. It isn't like there are all kinds of 
different sorts of GUIs out there and may the best man win -- there 
isn't really anything else out there, period! So what can you compare 
Windows, or MacOS, or GNOME, or KDE, or BeOS, or QNX, or whatever, with?

There's gotta to be more to life than windows and icons!

Jared