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As a person who has fond memories of Solaris CDE and and Irix, I can sympathize with you. However, overlapping windows and toolbars and launchers and mousey-mo
by rsync 7y ago
As a person who has fond memories of Solaris CDE and and Irix, I can sympathize with you.
However, overlapping windows and toolbars and launchers and mousey-mouse-mouse for everything ... it's bad usability and very inefficient.
The high water mark for GUI design is something like ion3/ratpoison, xterms running screen/tmux and a "desktop" that you never see ...
- nradov 7y agoWhat you describe as a "high water mark" is only optimal for a very limited set of use cases. Overlapping windows with toolbars, launchers, and mouse control is on average superior for the total set of use cases especially for non-expert users.
- qubex 7y agoThe usability is perfect for me, but I recognise that different use-cases may vary. It forged my sense of aesthetics, though (alongside BeOS).
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- zokula 7y ago""However, overlapping windows and toolbars and launchers and mousey-mouse-mouse for everything ... it's bad usability and very inefficient."" Citation needed. ""The high water mark for GUI design is something like ion3/ratpoison, xterms running screen/tmux and a "desktop" that you never see ..."" Says who? Again citation needed.
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoHave you ever used desktop solaris? it was terrible. I'll vouch. resize a window in the file manager, and every single item would need to be reprocessed and the entire system would lock until 1 by 1 they re-spawned. It was infuriating.