SF>> Mac OS9 is one of the best UI out there for "your grandma". OSX does a
Maybe for grandma, I don't know, had no chance to ever teach my grandma computers... But as for me, the mac OS appeared to me first very much unusable. The concept of "one application per system" is rather confusing - where are the others? What happened to them? Oh, I have to look at that strange symbol on the screen to see them, thank you. The concept of one-button mouse that has click, double click, triple click and long click lacks only one brilliant idea - to remove the keyboard and replace it with the Morse key. To avoid confusing users with a lot of buttons, of course. And the magnificent modifier key with symbol on it that has no name and impossible to describe without waving your hands and making faces and saying phrases "this thing that looks like whatever - you just will know it's it because there's nothing else like this". That's so that the imaginary grandma would have easier time - as we all know, grandmas are illiterate and couldn't read if on the key there would be actually some writing - so the designers decided to use the approach one sees in the kindergartens - "you, Mike, put your closes where there's an apple, and you, Peter, put your closes where there's a dog". And to make life yet easier, they invent own symbols so that nobody could effectively communicate key sequences to strangers. And so on, and so on - if you catch me in a good moment, I can go on for a good hour on how the "best GUI ever" is only the best for one who was trained to use it for years but is outright confusing and weird to anyone looking from the outside. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
