Universal GUI

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

For the untutored... can you define/give some definition/list some 
aspects of the UI that are  "schmutz"  in the interests of newbies not 
following suit!


On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 07:45  AM, Dan Shafer wrote:

>> How do
>> we get Apple back to being a research-based (as opposed to a
>> Steve's-Whim-based) company?
>>
>> The pre-NeXT Apple understood the difference between usability 
>> engineering
>> and graphic design.  And they had twice the marketshare.
>>
> There is a lot of consternation within and without Apple about the 
> Aqua interface and the degree to which it obfuscates or reduces the 
> simplicity of the traditional Apple GUI. I see it as a mixed bag. 
> There is some stuff in OS X which I have wanted Apple to fix in the 
> old GUI for years. But there is also some stuff that's just downright 
> confusing.
>
> I guess we have to look at this as an evolving thing. Hopefully, 
> developer feedback will get a hearing and some of the schmutz that's 
> crept into the UI will get eaten by a monster and the rest of us can 
> bask in the remaining pastures of elegance.