From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:15:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090710191553.GA1434@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090710101607.GA2076@polynum.com>
Thanks for the pointer(s)!
The extra information, compared to what I previously read, is Edward
Tufte.
I do think Plan 9 colors choices are right.
In french, "travail" (work) is derived from a word meaning pain,
torture. That's perhaps why a "professional" computer interface is one
that gives you pain, since it must be work...
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-10 10:16 tlaronde
2009-07-10 18:01 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-10 18:31 ` Jack Johnson
2009-07-10 19:50 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-13 9:14 ` Paul Donnelly
2009-07-13 10:23 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-13 11:44 ` Steve Simon
2009-07-13 14:03 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-10 18:07 ` Martin Neubauer
2009-07-10 19:15 ` tlaronde [this message]
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