From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <46E7EE42925499BF1B9558D2423340AA@eigenstate.org> <20190403132308.40f40cabe3c1388582669299@eigenstate.org> <20190403182228.09444137cdcf315f19033528@eigenstate.org> In-Reply-To: From: Michael Misch Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:41:35 -0600 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000004ba59605868bf213" Subject: Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements. Topicbox-Message-UUID: f98c5998-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0000000000004ba59605868bf213 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. On Mon., Apr. 15, 2019, 12:26 a.m. Devine Lu Linvega, wrote: > Michelangelo would have been =E2=80=9Cmiddle-click!? Hell no=E2=80=9D. > > > On Apr 15, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > Michelangelo or Rodin didn't have to worry about function, only form. > > > > Da Vinci on the other hand.... > > > >> On Apr 14, 2019, at 10:07 PM, Lucio De Re wrote= : > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> 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? > >> > >> Good luck! > >> > >> Lucio. > >> > > > > > > > --0000000000004ba59605868bf213 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
The whole thing is a good discussion. plan9's design = works, very well; for about 80% of would be users. For differently abled pe= ople in any capacity it all falls apart quickly. it's such a simple sys= tem though it wouldn't take much work to extend support wherever needed= .

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.

> On Apr 15, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com&g= t; wrote:
>
> Michelangelo or Rodin didn't have to worry about function, only fo= rm.
>
> Da Vinci on the other hand....
>
>> On Apr 14, 2019, at 10:07 PM, Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.c= om> wrote:
>>
>> The thing is, a UI is a combination of far too many personal taste= s
>> 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.
>>
>> We've had one Michelangelo and a Rodin and only a few Greek sc= ulptors
>> 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?
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Lucio.
>>
>
>


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