Re: [9fans] User Interface

[pac <cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>]

>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:02:47AM +0100, nigel@9fs.org wrote:
>> > 
>> > >> btw: is there a shutdown command or do I just switch my laptop of?
>> > 
>> > I'd just switch it off.
>> 
>> Amen.  Lucio.
>> 

I almost certainly missed the joke (again :-), but I would rather do:

	disk/kfscmd halt
	Ctl+Alt+Del
	(switch it off)

BTW, I was impressed by the Plan 9's GUI when I first saw it.....no, I'm not a hacker or a programmer, see below. 
However, I like it for the sake it is minimalistic, yet powerful....no unnecessary bells and whistles (except of being so much colourful).
Nevertheless, it is not GUI, what is central to this OS.  _It is a clean concept_.

Unfortunately, I am a newbie, thus not being the proper person even for intro. However, here are the reasons that
convinced me (personally) to prepare to switch to Plan 9:

* clean design, AFAI can tell, no backward compatibility bloat,
* small graphic lib and windowing sys instead of dinosaur X,
* unicode,
* minimalistic, yet powerful GUI (believe me, or not)
* system-wide snarf buffer (but see sam)
(yes, and the fact that Plan 9 is being made by the fathers of Unix sounds like warranty, at least to me).

Although I am capable of doing some C programming, I would classify myself as a user.  Yes, and I know the OS called "Windoze"
and it's notepad.exe with its "File is too large to be opened by Notepad..." message. I have 15+ years experience of using
computers, and I have wasted _A LOT_ of time swithching among OSes:

 HP programmable calculator in early 80's --> Z80 based computer ---> CP/M --> DOS --> Windows, MacOS --> NEXTSTEP -->
Linux --> (gnu/hurd/mach ... L4Linux on L4Ka .... dreaming of  berlin/hurd/L4 would once become true) --> Plan 9.

Please, delay erasing of Plan 9 from your computer, and try to dive deeper. 
Good luck, and have a nice day,
Peter.

--
Peter A Cejchan
biologist
Acad. Sci., Prague, CZ
<cej at cejchan dot gli dot cas dot cz>