At 03:03 PM 12/16/03 -0500, David W. Fenton wrote: >You've described a whole set of methods for doing all the things that >Expose does in a unified fashion, with a UI that is more intuitive >than task switching, tiling and taskbar manipulation.
I see. Since I tend to adapt fairly quickly to whatever's put in front of me (once I'm told the rules), I have little preference. Nothing's more intuitive than anything else, is it? It's all custom and acculturation. When I moved from CLI to GUI, I found GUI totally non-intuitive, what with 2D spaces and a pretend 3D desktop. All cartoons. What would get me to move away from Windows? Two big things. Multiple mouses/cursors and manipulation devices. I have a mouse (right hand), a trackball (left hand), and a tablet (right hand) on my machine -- and they all move the same cursor and do the same clicking. I want them assignable to separate kinds of tasks and multiple cursors (damn those on-screen mixers with only one mouse!). Does the Mac do this? That would get my attention. More pretty GUI won't; never did. Virtual cross-wiring scripting (not programming) language so that I can get any programs to act on any other program's information, in real time, regardless of what kind of information it is. (I just restored a bunch of my own recordings from the 1980s, and realized how much more control I had over information and computer input/output with a few simple commands.) I'd like to play back my text files, or convert images to audio, or Finale data to drawings -- all as I'm working on them. >I think it's similar to the way Internet Explorer users don't >understand why Mozilla users are so attached to tabbed browsing -- if >you haven't used it, you won't be able understand how much it changes >the user experience. I use Opera because it's configurable. Give me a configurable UI and I'll always be happy. :) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
