From: Albert Skye <mistlail@yahoo.co.uk>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] new-topic: typographical interface
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:20:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121018072047.35fd3762@nance> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <108cc49f0db0ffc6d5f6fa4c40a443ac@kw.quanstro.net>
erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>
> poor special effects?
it's just resting!
but maybe it should die
yes
no "modern GUI", &c.
(and I'm grateful for that! :)
but Plan 9 (and other software)
can be much more useful by exposition
within a *typographical interface*
i.e.,
an interface
informed by typographical imperative[1]
(to increase signal
decrease noise)
in
arranging streams
(of text/numbers/symbols/images
outputs and inputs)
using established patterns
of typographical technology
for
improving the interface/tools
between process and user
to make it
natural/immediate/effortless
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-18 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 19:49 [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop Aharon Robbins
2012-10-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-10-17 20:19 ` Rodrigo Miranda
2012-10-18 0:29 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 7:31 ` arnold
2012-10-18 13:54 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 14:20 ` Albert Skye [this message]
2012-10-18 15:41 ` [9fans] new-topic: typographical interface Julius Schmidt
2012-10-18 15:42 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 19:37 ` Corey Thomasson
2012-10-18 19:40 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-24 7:19 ` Albert Skye
2012-10-18 8:36 ` [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop tlaronde
2012-10-18 9:03 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-10-18 12:10 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-18 13:25 ` Nemo
2012-10-18 13:44 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-10-18 14:16 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-10-18 16:50 ` Robert Raschke
2012-10-18 16:52 ` erik quanstrom
2012-10-18 17:47 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-10-17 20:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-10-18 14:18 ` yard-ape
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