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In article <1992Sep10.013222.14702@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>  
halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin) writes:
> In article <1992Sep9.203008.9838@adobe.com> byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)  
writes:
> >Jeff Henshaw writes
> >
> >> Everyone wants their familiar OS and UI.
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> >It's just sad that a good operating system will be handicapped with
> >such a bad UI as Windows.  If I'm mistaken in that, please let me know
> >what will be used instead - I'd be very happy to hear it.
> 
> What are you refering to when you talk about the UI?  A menu is a menu,
> a button is a button, etc...  Once youve launched an application you can
> safely ignore the "desktop", at which point youre at the mercy of the
> application designer.  If the designer has layed out dialog boxes  
correctly,
> given the user an appropriate amount of direct control over the data  
s/he
> is working with, and done some decent graphics design you have a good UI
> that will work over almost any imaging model.  This has nothing to do  
with
> Microsoft or Windows.
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Steve,
One of the differences between an environment like the NeXT and the old  
GUIs like Mac and Windows is that more of the "desktop" does NOT go away  
when you launch an application (or two, or three).  For example, as I  
compose this posting, I can double-click any word and look it up in  
Digital Webster, Oxford Quotations, or the Digital Librarian, all with a  
quick keystroke or mouseclick or two.  Or if we're talking math I can type  
something like  Factor[1-c^4], click "Evaluate to Plain Text" in the  
Services menu, and get (1 - c)*(1 + c)*(1 + c^2).  Applications are  
automatically launched as needed to perform these services.  Also, many of  
the menu items activate objects common to many apps, like the FontPanel,  
ColorPanel, PrintPanel, etc..  The Mac made a beginning at the kind of  
integration now found in NeXT, but the NeXT is currently more like a real  
desktop than the Mac.

> -Steve
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> Stephen E. Halpin                halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com
>                                  My views are mine because no one else
>                                  would take them.

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