Friday, June 06, 2003
Chipper comments on my de-clutter the user interface! rant. He's another red-eyed knight that's spent too long in the biz....
I remember, when the mac first came out - and the research that spawned it was done - most people didn't touchtype. In fact, typing was looked down upon by males and managers - it was a weenie skill. It was a woman's skill. I got looked down upon for being able to type so well in the 80s. As a managerial type leaned on me to help get his report out he probably thought - sure that sissy geek can type - I'll bet his golf game sucks.
Now, everybody types. Everybody mouses. I'm certain that this is not entirely an improvement on the 80s. My first drafts come out a lot faster and cleaner if I dictate them and get someone else to type them up.I wish there were still secretary pools for that kind of work.
Hey you out there, with cramps in your mouse hand! Get with 00s, man. It's time for a renassance of the cntrl key and the function keys. It's time to take back the desktop!
There's no waves... I have a first draft I need to finish, and a tape deck... hmmm.... Maybe it's time for some golf. I haven't cracked 98 in a while.
Outta here. ¶ 1:33 PM
- re: "top menu bar changing". That is the part of the mac I hate the most. I want the functions to be tied to the program I am trying to use.
Xterm is the program I use. I use xterm because it doesn't have those fsckin pulldown menus.
I started my "gui" life with autocad 9. My "menu" was a tablet. Two monitors, two screens. One had the drawing, the other had the logs of fuctions that made the drawings. No bloody pull downs. I hate pull downs now, just like I hated them then. In a "Altos" like way, like the early mac way, they kinda made sense.
But I was okay with autocad and I was able to grok early photoshop with it's tear offs.
Pine's interface rocks, a simple bottom (easier for those of us who touchtype) reminder of the cntl fuctions. They are just THERE, they don't DO anything. You can't HIGHLIGHT THEM and click with your MOUSE, or even tab to them.
Just like wordstar. I liked wordstar. ^7 delete this line. Just like ^k in Pine. Easy.
I still use lynx. It's the best browser out there if you actually need to READ something on the web.
The second best way to read web content is to print it. Trying to read anything off a modern browser, any modern browser is enough to cause therapy.
"Therapy therapy.
Advertising causes me
therapy therapy"
--Chic N'Stu
the only intuitive interface is the nipple, all other functions are learned. --unknown
luv,
Chipper
I remember, when the mac first came out - and the research that spawned it was done - most people didn't touchtype. In fact, typing was looked down upon by males and managers - it was a weenie skill. It was a woman's skill. I got looked down upon for being able to type so well in the 80s. As a managerial type leaned on me to help get his report out he probably thought - sure that sissy geek can type - I'll bet his golf game sucks.
Now, everybody types. Everybody mouses. I'm certain that this is not entirely an improvement on the 80s. My first drafts come out a lot faster and cleaner if I dictate them and get someone else to type them up.I wish there were still secretary pools for that kind of work.
Hey you out there, with cramps in your mouse hand! Get with 00s, man. It's time for a renassance of the cntrl key and the function keys. It's time to take back the desktop!
There's no waves... I have a first draft I need to finish, and a tape deck... hmmm.... Maybe it's time for some golf. I haven't cracked 98 in a while.
Outta here. ¶ 1:33 PM
