Re: ::scr Drooling GUI

[David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:36:21AM +0000, Clifton Evans wrote:

> But the desktop metaphor is dead and bloated.

Yes, we hatesssss it, we doesssss.

> Or at least too specific for most people. Or all people. Artists would
> prefer a studio metaphor. Gamers an arcade metaphor. Chefs a kitchen
> metaphor. And so on.

Bleh.  It doesn't even do a good impression of a desktop.  And none of those
would do a good impression of a studio, an arcade or a kitchen.  This
insistence on a metaphor may have been useful once-upon-a-time, but it isn't
now.  What I use my desktop for is nothing like what I use my computer for.
The same applies to my thoroughly non-techie relatives.

How about treating it like a computer, not like some fucked up attempt at
being something else.

> Making everyone compute on the terms of 'Office Work' has got to stop. At
> least if we want it to get any better.

The "desktop" isn't even a useful metaphor for those poor souls.

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