What I meant to say is you can't apply aesthetics of art
to UI as the latter has a functional purpose. And we don't
have to wait for a Michelangelo to design a perfect UI!
In other words, I don't think a UI discussion would be
fruitless. Not to replicate KDE/Gnome etc. but to find
other alternative
the only art in window management is how they manage to sustain so
much inconsistency
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:24:44AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> And we don't have to wait for a Michelangelo to design a perfect UI!
Of course not. We already have Mike Okuda.
khm
Hi Darren,
Your goal seem to be to make the system less daunting for new users. I
think there are a number of ways to accomplish this.
Dressing up the UI and/or making it more like popular used interfaces might
be one way to make new users feel more comfortable. One concern with doing
this is tha
Heya folks,
Thanks very much for the replies so far, I'm still reading them as they
come in and when the flutter has calmed down a little I'll then start to
reply. I'm just letting you know I am listening and reading and not
being ignorant firing off some random eMail and then doing-one elsewh
> 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 mo
> Darren Wise wrote:
> snip
With all due respect (admittedly, I've thought about this before) but
Plan 9 may be better used as a model of how thoughtful engineering can
produce a great system.
Perhaps better inspiration could be achieved by setting up a public Plan
9 server (or private, it's your
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, at 7:43 AM, Michael Misch wrote:
> 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.
Begging your pardon, but for *this* differently abled per
That's good to note. (I don't consider "WinGnoKDE" a good counterpoint
anyways) but for example I have reasonably debilitating carpal tunnel
issues, and the heavy mouse use is a major bane to my general enjoyment in
Rio when it happens.
On Mon., Apr. 15, 2019, 2:00 p.m. Ethan Gardener,
wrote:
>
Hi Darren!
I can see how 9's current UI could be considered a 'roadblock' to the
average user due to its unfamiliarity, and making it closer to modern looks
may make plan 9 pass the smell test for users more often. Personally,
though, it seems like a bit of a slog; there's not much exciting going
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:59:12 -0400
Marshall Conover wrote:
> For example, I feel super squished on a single screen, but I've come to
> dislike the awkwardness of switching between multiple 'workspaces' or
> working with tiling wms. So I'm playing around with rio at the moment to
> see if adding a
ven a deficient
program can be better than a featureful one, if the deficient program
is simple and easy to modify. just implement whatever it is you
actually want to do.
some people would say this is ugly:
http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/20190415.png
sl
bout can be
> modified with a minimum of knowledge and skill. this is a benefit of
> the terse, simple programming style. sometimes, even a deficient
> program can be better than a featureful one, if the deficient program
> is simple and easy to modify. just implement whatever it is yo
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