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dtaylor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas A Taylor) writes:

>In article <1993Jan7.225020.16537@netcom.com> solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
>...
>>that allows for scalability and ease of use. More important for
>>developers, GEOS offers a flexible user interface that adopts the
>>appropriate "look and feel" of different devices.

>Aha!  I was wondering why the GEOS folks invented that "Generic
>UI"/"specific UI" stuff (other than for showing off, of course.  This
>explains it.

Yep.  Some months back mention was made here on the newsgroup about Brian
(at a conference) switching between the stock Motif GUI and a Macintosh
GUI, right in the middle of word-processing a document.  Of course, the
wording used above - ...adopts the appropriate "look and feel" of different
devices - doesn't just have to mean it can look like a different GUI.  GEOS
could - by my interpretation of the wording - adopt the "look and feel" of
an automated teller machine.  The "look and feel" of one of those info
kiosks you find at tourist information centers.  It might even mean that
GEOS could adopt a "look and feel" that utilizes a command-line interface
(though I don't think it would happen).

-Shag

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