On 27 January 2016 at 23:00, Geoffrey Oltmans <oltma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmmm... agree to disagree I guess. I generally found the Workplace shell in > OS/2 a bit cumbersome and maddening compared to a lot of the GUI > alternatives.
I have to agree. Classic MacOS, particularly in MacOS 8 and 9, was perhaps the most polished GUI I've ever used. I also retain great fondness for Acorn's RISC OS desktop, with its unusual and distinctive elegance: * "maximise" only makes a window as big as it needs to be to show all icons without scrolling * drag-and-drop file saving -- no need for a directory browser in the dialog * the first GUI with anti-aliasing & full-window moving & resizing (as opposed to outlines) * the first Icon Bar, before even the NeXT Dock, AFAIK WPS was impressively powerful and had an impressive design, but the actual implementation was a bit patchy and clunky. Sorry to have to say it, but I found the Windows 9x Explorer more actual /use./ The idea of the Start menu, implemented as a directory of directories, was *inspired*. Shortcuts are clunky but they work -- if the implementation had originated on NT and NTFS, it would have worked better. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
