Paul Haddon wrote:
> > I wonder if 10 years from now peopel will look back on teh computers in
> > contempery sci-fi and wonder how we ever could have been so limited in scope.
> > If they will look on the GUI as an anacronism
>
> The 2D GUI, certainly, if we get holographic or head mounted displays.
<insert standard Jeff rant on the state of GUIs (2D or not) and how they
should all curl up into a dark corner and die - and that the command line is
not the answer to the problem>
The only reason why we still use the GUIs we do is a combination of
gutlessness, corporate control instead of user control, and the horrendously
fallacious fiction that "if you change it, it will cost more time and
energy".
Tomorrows rant: Why files and filenames are a complete con.
- Jeff
(ObLinux: Get involved with GNOME, KDE, hell Motif if you want to, and
improve things! It's fun, and you can change the world. Shush disbelievers,
yes you can.)
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