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-- Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:48:52 -0600 From: Ethan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 33, Issue 9 I've used a few distros, mainly the Fedora Core 4, 5, and SuSE 10.1 By "this software", I'm trying to say Gnome, or KDE, which gnome is not. (It kind of bugs me we (the open source community) have redundant code like that- It dilutes our coding efforts.) Here's some background on me. People say I think too much. As far as programming languages, I know TI-BASIC, and a little bit of C and ASM. My philosophy on software is thus: If it's not GNU, it doesn't exist. The way to make good software is to lay down platform guidelines until the size of the text matches or exceeds the size of the code needed to turn it into reality. This methodical deliberation allows those who don't know Python to contribute to functionality. People should only need to be able to think logically, and understand IT (grasp concepts like modularity, interrupts, and flags.) I, um, think outside the box, I guess. Or something like that. I'm new here, so my phrasing may be quite awkward. As demonstrated already- By "window controls" I'm referring to user interface devices inside of application windows. I probably shouldn't have. Anyway. In Firefox, these would include the adress bar, tabs bar, back, forward, and other buttons, StumbleUpon button, etc. I'm saying that I think that this segment of the window, that is the part with all the buttons and text fields, should be handed over to some kind of DE controller and library. That is, Apps should not render their own windows. This sounds ridiculous, I know, but imagine this: Will continue soon* _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
