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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2001 10:32:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87elnc4i44.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011105154852.0736919A08@mail.cse.psu.edu>

presotto@closedmind.org writes:

> That said, the amount of configurability of the UI is much
> smaller than X windows.  Having just spent 3 weeks trying to
> make 3 Linux systems look sort of the same, I appreciate that
> less can be better.

It's not at all that configurability is that great at thing when it
comes to user interfaces.  Jef Raskin puts it that we should not
expect our users to be experts in interface design.  All too often
interface designers figure that if they put in enough configurability
they don't have any obligation to design a terrific interface.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-06 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-05 15:48 presotto
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2001-11-06 17:53   ` Ozan Yigit
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-30 10:15 [9fans] plan 9 nigel
2002-08-30  9:57 Isaac Stern
2001-11-13 10:53 [9fans] Plan 9 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-09 22:39 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-09 12:25 geoff
2001-11-12 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 15:11   ` Ozan Yigit
2001-11-13  0:15     ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 11:41 ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-11-13 10:25   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09  1:47 okamoto
2001-11-08 15:05 presotto
2001-11-08 14:44 forsyth
2001-11-08 14:02 presotto
2001-11-09  0:25 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-09 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 17:31   ` Dan Cross
2001-11-12 10:33     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-13  2:10       ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 10:34         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 13:07 Bruce Janson
2001-11-09 10:07 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 13:06 rob pike
2001-11-09 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 18:05 anothy
2001-11-07 17:43 anothy
2001-11-07 17:47 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-07 17:28 Russ Cox
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 19:38   ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-09 10:18     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 12:58 rob pike
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 11:00 geoff
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 10:03 forsyth
2001-11-08 10:38 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07  1:09 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-06 18:46 anothy
2001-11-07  9:44 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 18:14 forsyth
2001-11-07  9:43 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 18:07 presotto
2001-11-07  9:44 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 16:59 anothy
2001-11-06 17:54 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 13:45 nigel
2001-11-06 13:33 rob pike
2001-11-06 17:53 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06  1:14 presotto
2001-11-06  1:30 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-06  1:37   ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2001-11-05 21:47 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-05 21:53 ` andrey
2001-11-06 10:31   ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 10:43 ` pac
2001-11-05 21:04 rob pike
2001-11-05 21:00 Richard Miller
2001-11-05 18:18 anothy
2001-11-06  1:06 ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-05 17:45 forsyth
2001-11-05 17:44 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-06 10:31 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 13:34   ` Tomas
2001-11-02 18:36 Russ Cox
2001-11-05 16:49 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 17:21   ` Ian Cooper
2001-11-06 10:30     ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-02 17:57 forsyth
2001-11-02 18:22 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-02 17:26 Russ Cox
2001-11-02 18:29 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 10:21 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-05 16:49 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 17:08   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-06 10:23     ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-02 13:53 rob pike
2001-11-05 10:20 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-29 21:08 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-05 15:00 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-10-26 15:12 Russ Cox
2001-10-29 10:16 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-10-25 17:52 Russ Cox
2001-10-26  9:23 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-10-26 15:03   ` William Josephson
2001-10-26 20:14     ` Dan Adkins
2001-10-25 12:45 rob pike
2001-10-25 13:47 ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-25 21:52   ` Jim Choate
2001-10-26  8:35     ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-25 16:59 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-01  9:47 ` Randolph Fritz
2001-11-01 14:18   ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02  9:58   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-02 11:43     ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-02 12:39       ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 14:11         ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-11-05 15:13           ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 16:30             ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 17:37               ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 17:42                 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 18:04                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-05 18:30                     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-05 19:58                     ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02 15:36       ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-02 15:42         ` andrey
2001-11-02 15:54           ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-05 15:01 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 15:29   ` Markus Friedl
2001-11-05 15:49   ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-06 10:23     ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
1998-11-13  8:29 Scott
1998-11-11 21:08 Mats

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