On 2010-10-20 18:18 , Arno Hautala wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 19:28,<[email protected]> wrote:
but a vocabulary of hundreds of different
fingerswipes won't be especially intuitive until we all learn the
fingerswipes in our childhood
I don't think finger swipes have replaced any of the menubar functions.
The way I see it, functions in the menubar will move to their
appropriate place within the interface, as widgets or gestures.
as long as they're discoverable that could be okay, but i'm not sure
there usually _is_ an "appropriate place", unless we simply transfer the
menu somewhere else (e.g. pie menus)
one advantage of a menu bar is that it (in principle) provides a
dictionary of the commands that one also can execute in other ways;
interestingly, Mission Control seems to also aim to provide a central
reference conceptually analogous to a menu bar, at the level of apps
instead of app commands, so maybe each app will need its own "Mission
Control"; if so i would hope Apple comes up with a better implementation
-- i don't want my visual context constantly disrupted by switching to
"control screens" or back and forth between full screen apps; this was a
workaround for the limitation of small screens, so why foist it onto a
high resultion workspace? another outcome could be the proliferation of
those enigmatic buttons that say something like "advanced"
here we are at an important turning point; can we trust the reinvention
of the UI to Apple's secret labs?
i've always felt that interacting with a computer is on the level of
complexity of language; how do you simplify language?
Body language.
i think that's a non-answer -- body language is not a simplification of
language, it's an alternate language that has its benefits but that is
very poor at communicating large amounts of detail
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