[9fans] UI design | enhancements.

2019-04-14 Thread Darren Wise
Hey folks, I rarely post in-fact maybe my second ever, I was wondering if anyone else or a group of us could work towards some window manager UI modifications to appear more attractive in some form from the current interface appearing in comparison to dwm(on other Nix forks) to a more usable

Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.

2019-04-14 Thread Ethan Gardener
No offense taken, but just to note: I found Plan 9 very refreshing and very useful as it is. It was a relief after the massive noise and clumsiness of traditional GUI, and the different but still irritating inherent clumsiness and bugginess of terminal emulation. That's not to say Plan 9 is wit

Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.

2019-04-14 Thread hiro
> wondering if anyone else or a group of us could work towards no, you!

Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.

2019-04-14 Thread Lucio De Re
The thing is, a UI is a combination of far too many personal tastes and habits and a GUI multi-dimensionally more so. It's like a marble slab that needs a Michelangelo to turn it into an image. We've had one Michelangelo and a Rodin and only a few Greek sculptors in the past, what, three thousand

Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.

2019-04-14 Thread Bakul Shah
Michelangelo or Rodin didn't have to worry about function, only form. Da Vinci on the other hand > On Apr 14, 2019, at 10:07 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: > > The thing is, a UI is a combination of far too many personal tastes > and habits and a GUI multi-dimensionally more so. It's like a marble

Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.

2019-04-14 Thread Devine Lu Linvega
Michelangelo would have been “middle-click!? Hell no”. > On Apr 15, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Michelangelo or Rodin didn't have to worry about function, only form. > > Da Vinci on the other hand > >> On Apr 14, 2019, at 10:07 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: >> >> The thing is, a UI

Re: [9fans] UI design | enhancements.

2019-04-14 Thread Michael Misch
The whole thing is a good discussion. plan9's design works, very well; for about 80% of would be users. For differently abled people in any capacity it all falls apart quickly. it's such a simple system though it wouldn't take much work to extend support wherever needed. On Mon., Apr. 15, 2019, 12