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[2a02:a464:36da:fc::7f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p17-20020a170906229100b008e68d2c11d8sm3483779eja.218.2023.02.27.09.59.21 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from arno by mail.ancienthardware.org with local (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1pWhmT-000k3a-0n for tuhs@tuhs.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:59:21 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:59:21 +0100 To: "tuhs@tuhs.org" Message-ID: References: <58626A0B-EF9C-4920-8E20-CE0C4210BA6A@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Message-ID-Hash: B6L7DDDAAMIZTN5QI4R65IPW4OME7SZT X-Message-ID-Hash: B6L7DDDAAMIZTN5QI4R65IPW4OME7SZT X-MailFrom: arno.griffioen@ieee.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: Arno Griffioen via TUHS Reply-To: Arno Griffioen On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 06:22:09PM +0100, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote: > It is in stark contrast with developments at the lower/consumer end of the > market. The original Mac, GEM and Windows all placed much more emphasis on > being a graphical user interface, with standard widgets and UI design > elements. In my experience, compared to the above, many AmigaOS users would use the Workbench environment a lot more like the X windows setup. Aka. with several concurrent 'shell' windows open and having access on later versions to native scripting langauges like REXX and such to even automate 'windowed' applications. And even though AmigaOS also had lots of built-in libraries and style guide stuff, many programmers would still do things s lot more their own way as far as look&feel went than for instance on MacOS. (and yes... it often was a bit of mess like X can be ;) ) Not sure if the fact that things like Windows and MacOS were basically single-tasking or at best cooperative multitasking also influenced the use (enforcement?) of their standardised look&feel and code. Aka. breaking the mould just wasn't useful for programmers on these platforms or was perhaps even detrimental to the user? Bye, Arno.