What I meant to say is you can't apply aesthetics of art to UI as the latter has a functional purpose. And we don't have to wait for a Michelangelo to design a perfect UI! In other words, I don't think a UI discussion would be fruitless. Not to replicate KDE/Gnome etc. but to find other alternatives that feel more in tune with plan9.
> On Apr 14, 2019, at 11:41 PM, Michael Misch <michaelmisch1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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, <aliceff...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Michelangelo would have been “middle-click!? Hell no”. > > > On Apr 15, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> 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 <lucio.d...@gmail.com> 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. > >> > > > > > >
