From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:52:44 +0200 From: Sergey Reva Message-ID: <1114846546.20050222155244@mail.ru> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Evolving rio / GUI development In-Reply-To: References: <50f22001212dc7ae033228973851dc17@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5103831a-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hello Matthias, Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 10:07:36 AM, you wrote: >>> IMHO text/language only represents thoughts, images most fastest way to recognize >>> something, text one of images. If your say 'disk' only who known English MT> That is not true. Start your Mozilla, and move the cursor over some MT> icon. If you wait some seconds, you'll get a long description of the MT> icon. Why? Why do I need a description of an icon if it is the MT> "fastest way to recognize"? But after reading description you known what mean this icon. This is like learn new language - you read word in dictionary once. Example: Long time (while I not read 'man acme' :) I can't understand what is 'Look', but if it have tool-tip i need just stop mouse over them... MT> The fundamental rule of user interfaces MT> is adaption. A good interface must be monotone/consistent, modeless MT> and there must be only one way to solve a problem. It must support MT> adaption. It must be like Acme without a tagline (and with graffic MT> and WYSIWYG support ;-)) That is right! MT> A textual interface is the most user friendly today (textual != cli). cli? -- http://rs-rlab.narod.ru mailto:rs_rlab@mail.ru