Re: InSight

[Joel Dillon <emily cornholio new ox ac uk>]

A URL or something to an online expression of these ideas would be nice. I
remember the original post and it seemed to be mainly concerned with
giving us icons rather than UI ideas (except the idea of status icons
which changed colour, which seemed nice but not too well suited to
low-end hardware, as the Insight developer who posted acknowledged).


On Sat, 2 May 1998, Raj Dutt wrote:

> I am writing this message with my head reeling with disbelief.
> 
> I have spent the past few hours going over some of the stuff that the
> InSight OS team produced before their project broke up and I am
> absolutely amazed by the professional artwork and what is some quite
> revolutionary ideas.
> 
> Recently, I met one of the core developers in #linuxOS on EFnet. I began
> talking with him about interface ideas. Within 30 minutes, he had me
> shaking my head in amazement at some of the "insanely obvious" things
> that should be part of any consistent GUI/OS. When I mentioned telling
> the GNOME people about such ideas he mentioned that he had, but with
> reactions that were not what he expected.
> 
> Apparently, while most people agreed with some of InSights ideas and
> were awed at some of their interface design possiblities, the idea was
> met with great resistance by the people higher up.
> 
> I am writing this message to ask all of you to take a serious look at
> the fruits that the InSight project has borne. I can quite honestly say
> that over the past few hours, I have learnt more about interface design
> than I have in the past few years. They really knew what they were
> doing. These people are prepared to give us much of their work
> (according to one developer, alot of stuff arrived at RHAL today).
> 
> It would be stupid stupid stupid not to incorporate some of this into
> GNOME.
> 
> My apologies if I have offended anyone. I did not to. GNOME is going
> great and will be an impressive product and a testimony to FreeSoftware
> regardless of whether this message is redirected to /dev/null or not
> 
> Best Regards,
>         nopzor                          
> 
> 
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