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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] what a surprise
Date: Fri,  4 May 2007 21:43:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf9ffb8fa65b0573e78ff122d430066b@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D52B5F9A-6924-4711-8C29-66B2E229936D@telus.net>

> This means that no beginner will be able  
> to pick up our beloved interface and get work done, even after giving  
> them the 3-button low-down.

I've been thinking that Abaco looks just like the acme of the future.
Add tags across the top (I really find tags in FireFox helpful) and I
think rio, sam and acme can be rolled into a single GUI that others
would learn to appreciate.

But the target market is hardly going to be the multimedia or
game-playing home user.  Or the clerk in some faceless organisation.

++L



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04 19:17 ron minnich
2007-05-04 19:32 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-04 19:32 ` Paul Lalonde
2007-05-04 19:43   ` lucio [this message]
2007-05-04 19:58     ` Russ Cox
2007-05-04 20:07       ` lucio
2007-05-05  2:37       ` Kris Maglione
2007-05-04 22:47   ` Steve Simon
2007-05-05  3:06     ` W B Hacker
2007-05-05  5:08       ` Bruce Ellis
2007-05-05 19:08       ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-05 19:19         ` lucio
2007-05-05 21:13           ` W B Hacker
2007-05-06 20:10 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-05-06 20:28   ` Federico Benavento

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