Re: January meeting

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk wrote:

> > One good open source project that I would gladly join in on, if anyone
> > started it: actual user interface design for linux. Designing new
> For GNOMe, there is the GNOME UI Hit Squad. I'm sure you can find it
> somewhere on www.gnome.org. They haven't tackled that many parts of
> GNOME yet, but it's good work IMO.

I've not really looked at that before. I kind of had the feeling that
they were out there having a go at the really sucky design, rather than
rethinking the whole thing tho'. For example, if you were reinventing the
desktop, you wouldn't have sliders/scrollbars. They are really crap, and
there's so many better ways of doing things..

> But when computers file stuff automatically power users get mad. The
> UNIX filesystem is a bit screwed up, there are efforts to standardise it
> (sorry, no URL) but it's basically a problem that has existed since the
> SysV/BSD thing.

I would disagree with that. Users get mad when the computer stops them
doing things they want to do. They don't get mad when computers take some
work off them. If you've never used an automatic filing system that didn't
get you mad, you've never used the type I'm talking about ;)

> The GIMP isn't that bad when you get used to it either. :)

Tosh and nonsense ;) It's a rip of Photoshop, which has possibly the
crappest interface in the high end segment. It's complete trash, no
offence Adobe. But it really does suck ;))

Regards,

Al.

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