by curiosity, are you old enough to have lived the times where the controversy in the unix world that was: what is the best editor: vi or ed (hint: at that time, emacs did not exist)?
I have, and, as far as I am concerned, I avoid by any means available OSs that make you feel like you are playing colossal cave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure The pervert idea that Firefox should be called iceweasel makes me puke. And, on a non tangential relevant point, the whole point of Revolution is to facilitate the construction of GUI programs over transcripts. Le 18 sept. 2010 à 00:17, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : > The interesting thing about ion is that it makes you think really hard > about what is ease of use, what is user friendly, what about those famous > laws, the HIG, and the one about where your points of clicking ought to be > that I always forget the name of because I hate it so much. Here is how > Ion2 works. > > It is sort of tangentially relevant because if you were packing a one app > OS, and you wanted a one app window manager, basically an embedded Rev app, > ion would be one way to do it. As long as you do not have too many new > windows overlapping, however. > > You start out looking at a totally blank screen with a top border which > says 'empty frame' at the top. It is also totally black except this > border, which is a quite attractive shade of blue/grey, with white > lettering on it. There are no clues what to do next. > > You are an insider or have a crib sheet, and so you know that F1 brings up > a man page, F2 opens a terminal (the second most important thing a guy > needs in his interface), and F3 lets you launch an app by name, which is a > nice to have but not essential, because real men launch from a terminal, of > course. > > So lets say you go ahead, and you type in icewe followed by a tab. It will > complete to iceweasel, which is the Debian name for firefox (yes, you had > to know that), and when you hit enter, firefox launches and occupies the > entire screen. OK, you think, how about mail? So you hit F3 again, now > you type in kmail, hit enter, and up pops your email. In a tab, also > occupying the entire screen. > > Now you have an idea. Why don't we split the screen? So now you do alt+k > s. instantly, your pane is split into two equal parts, vertically, one > like the first, black with nothing in it, the other with your two tabs. > You want to resize? alt+r and use the arrow keys. You want to kill a > panel? Just right click in the border and close. Same thing for a tab. > > You are geting bored and desperately want the full Debian menu? F12 brings > it up. > > It sounds impossible, and rather ridiculous. But here is what is amazing. > There comes a point at which all this suddenly becomes automatic as a way > of working. You do not think about it or look for your crib sheet, you > just enter a few characters, and things happen. You never have one window > behind another, nothing ever overlaps. You get used to splitting up your > panes just so, for instance a calculator always open in the top right of > your three or four. A file manager under it. Then the main window. A > terminal someplace of course. > > There are no, zero widgets. No taskbar. No clock or date. Nothing to > tell you about the status of the network. What is F2 for, after all? > Presumably one of your little panes someplace is always running a terminal, > so who needs widgets? There are not even any borders. All you see is apps > and a tiny little bar at the top telling yoiu which tab you are in by going > a paler shade of blue grey. > > I have to tell you, this is an experience to make you think and scratch > your head and think some more. If Apple were right, it should not work. > If Gnome were right, it should not work. And on day 1 it does not. But on > day n, it not only works, it feels just perfectly right and automatic, your > fingers just do things, and you forget you are using Ion, its just how > things are done here. > > Try it. You will never feel the same about HIGs and that guy and his silly > law again. Fitts he might have been. And you will never again confuse > being easy to use on day 1 for the ignorant with being easy to use when > you know it well and are experienced. No, they are completely different > things. > > Ion is a bit under resourced at the moment, as Richard pointed out. But > for the deprived minimalist, there are other alternatives, most notably > from the nosuck school of software, wmii, awesome, and a couple more of > that ilk. If you are interested enough to try ion, have a look at wmii and > its associates too. Anyone with a serious interest in man computer > interfaces will find it worth the effort. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
