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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:24:44 -0700
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.
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What I meant to say is you can't apply aesthetics of art
to UI as the latter has a functional purpose. And we don't
have to wait for a Michelangelo to design a perfect UI!
In other words, I don't think a UI discussion would be
fruitless. Not to replicate KDE/Gnome etc. but to find
other alternatives that feel more in tune with plan9.

> On Apr 14, 2019, at 11:41 PM, Michael Misch =
<michaelmisch1985@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The whole thing is a good discussion. plan9's design works, very well; =
for about 80% of would be users. For differently abled people in any =
capacity it all falls apart quickly. it's such a simple system though it =
wouldn't take much work to extend support wherever needed.
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> On Mon., Apr. 15, 2019, 12:26 a.m. Devine Lu Linvega, =
<aliceffekt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michelangelo would have been =E2=80=9Cmiddle-click!? Hell no=E2=80=9D.
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> > On Apr 15, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
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> > Michelangelo or Rodin didn't have to worry about function, only =
form.
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> > Da Vinci on the other hand....
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> >> On Apr 14, 2019, at 10:07 PM, Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com> =
wrote:
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> >> The thing is, a UI is a combination of far too many personal tastes
> >> and habits and a GUI multi-dimensionally more so. It's like a =
marble
> >> slab that needs a Michelangelo to turn it into an image.
> >>=20
> >> We've had one Michelangelo and a Rodin and only a few Greek =
sculptors
> >> in the past, what, three thousand years? Do we really think that a
> >> near infinite number of monkeys is now going to solve that problem,
> >> specially when the marble slab is undergoing its own metamorphosis
> >> underfoot?
> >>=20
> >> Good luck!
> >>=20
> >> Lucio.
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