Nope, uh uh, not a good idea ...
On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:36:47 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Because this stuff: Multitasking, Windows support API, and etc',
> can be added later. This is the basic GUI. You can use it to
> make it anything you want, because its going to be Open-Source.
> Its an empty kanvas, just waiting for a programmer to do with
> it whatever the programmer wants.
If that is true, then it was released to the "public" in error.
The secret of GUI is the INTERFACE ... If a "desktop" does not have a
way to INTERFACE with existing software, then it isn't a GUI ... it is
nothing except a bad screen saver.
You might understand better what I'm saying if you had ever used
DESQview. DESQview would allow you to run all sorts of programs, time
slicing among them, on a 386!!! And it was faster than some dozerware
stuff today. But the secret was that it had "installation templates"
for maybe 50 software programs, or various size DOS shells ... and if
that template didn't name your software, or wasn't exactly like you
wanted, DESQview provided a way for you to go step by step to create a
new template, or modify an existing one, to suit the software the user
had and wanted to use.
No program claiming to be an INTERFACE should be released to the public
if it does not have the BUILT-IN capacity to install the users'
software.
> Stop looking at what it has now, and start looking at what
> it can have. This program is not useable as of this moment.
> It has only one word: "Potential".
It has NO potential at present, if no one can show me or anyone else
what can or cannot be interfaced with as the program exists.
> The rest is up to us and the programmers who volenteer.
Programmers, maybe. But the end users? NOPE! Without a default
installation interface, the program is worthless.
Are you truly expecting programmers to just GUESS at what will or will
not work with Qube?? If so, you have a pretty low opinion of
programmers in general -- for only fools would try to work independently
to figure out what crap they have to add to their software to get it to
somehow work with Qube.
> Its just another optional GUI. This is FreeDOS, not Windows. :P
As I said, STOP CALLING IT A GUI! :> It *doesn't* interface, so right
now it is, at best, a GP -- Graphical Promise... or GT -- Graphical
Threat -- like dozerware.
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
