Re: [Hampshire] My 2p on the GUI 'Wars'

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Author: Ian
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] My 2p on the GUI 'Wars'
Windowmaker. Has stayed the same for many blue moons. No frills, faffing or fiddling.

I do miss the old risc oS ui, as well as the ui in OS/2 warp.

The guis these days are going the way of windows and has put me off using them. I still use KDE 2.5.x (kwin on wmaker) as its clean, simple and totally customisable.
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Samuel Penn <sam@???> wrote:

On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:20:45 +0100, Tim Brocklehurst
<timb@???> wrote:
> Another thought, you remember the way that RiscOS (particularly 3.7)
> handled
> applications? a folder with a ! at the start of the name? and a
> toolbox of
> applications on the iconbar? Let's revisit that. That system was
> nice.


Actually, the '!' was optional, and a feature of the UI not the backend
OS. There
were some hacks which allowed you to create application folders which
didn't start
with a '!'.

But it's all very dated now. I still miss the save UX from RISC OS
however - drag an
icon from your application to the file window in order to save works
really well when
you have several different applications working out of one directory.

RISC OS was probably one reason why I still insist on sloppy mouse
focus. The click
to focus of Unity (which you can't fix because of where the menus are)
is the one
thing that prevents me from considering using it. Move the menus and
enable sloppy
focus, and I'd probably be willing to consider using Unity.

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Be seeing you,
Sam.

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