From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87elnc4i44.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20011105154852.0736919A08@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:32:25 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15d2effa-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.