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Worth remembering: the original windowed interface on Xerox machines was a view into underlying system objects. It was designed around a unified vocabulary of i
by gambler 7y ago
Worth remembering: the original windowed interface on Xerox machines was a view into underlying system objects. It was designed around a unified vocabulary of interactions that allowed user to message those objects and also direct inter-object communication:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q
Xerox -> Apple -> Microsoft interface transfer preserved nothing of those core concepts. UI became a crutch developers grudgingly added to the system for "those stupid users". Thus, most software engineers today are still convinced that a teletype emulation is the best possible interface to the underlying OS that can possibly exist. Also, normal users are treated as second-class citizens in their own systems.
- g4d 7y agoA recent example of this for me is using Abaqus (an FE solver). When using it to set up models I usually set all of the boundary conditions and contact interactions in a script. It wasn't until I was helping a colleague (who was using the gui) with a problem that I realised some of the options just aren't available through the gui.
- swiley 7y ago> Also, normal users are treated as second-class citizens in their own systems. I would argue that’s an artifact of corporate software development culture and not GUI design.
- ChrisSD 7y agoSettings > System > Clipboard Make sure "Clipboard history" is turned on. It will also tell you how to access the manager: "Press the Windows logo key + V".