From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Evolving rio / GUI development Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:07:36 +0000 From: Matthias Teege In-Reply-To: <50f22001212dc7ae033228973851dc17@proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 13290252-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> IMHO text/language only represents thoughts, images most fastest way to recognize >> something, text one of images. If your say 'disk' only who known English That is not true. Start your Mozilla, and move the cursor over some icon. If you wait some seconds, you'll get a long description of the icon. Why? Why do I need a description of an icon if it is the "fastest way to recognize"? The fundamental rule of user interfaces is adaption. A good interface must be monotone/consistent, modeless and there must be only one way to solve a problem. It must support adaption. It must be like Acme without a tagline (and with graffic and WYSIWYG support ;-)) A textual interface is the most user friendly today (textual != cli). Matthias