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Check out the Oberon OS TUI sometime. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)#User_interface https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operatin
by philipswood 10y ago
Check out the Oberon OS TUI sometime.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)#User_interface https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)#Us...
(Oberon's GUI represents one of the paths not followed by mainstream computing-a non WIMP approach)
couple of notable features.
Tiled, not overlapping windows.
All three mouse button combinations have meaning (select, copy & paste can be done without a keyboard).
Any text can be higlighted and executed.
GUI approach is document based, with everything a text and texts being mostly, um, textual...
I cant find a nice writeup to link to, but there used to be a vm available.
- mrob 10y ago3-button mouse operation seems underused in modern OSes. I miss the "adjust" mouse button in RiscOS. It made changes with the minimum possible state change, eg. adjust-dragging a window would move it without changing the z-order, and adjust-clicking menu items would click the menu item without closing the menu.