On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:02:12PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >Seriously though... that looks like it would be a pretty nice piece of > >*hardware*, if it were about 30" wide or so. For control with a mouse > >on a ~ 15" wide monitor, yuck. Sigh... I still don't understand why so > >many people don't try to come up with an interface that makes good use > >of the actual interface resources as opposed to imaginary resources :-) > > because thats a lot more work. doing stuff like this (once you have a > pixmap based toolkit in place) is easy, easy, easy. devising new > metaphors and analogies for the UI is tough, often like a research > project.
fair enough. and it looks like this is a clone of an actual piece of hardware. So there were compelling reasons to go that route, even though I think stuff like this is decidedly non-optimal to use... -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's QUASI PUMPER! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
