We will not catch flies with vinager!!!

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Wed Jun 21 08:23:56 UTC 2000


I think this is a good route (one of them anyway ...). I'd like to 
see Squeak have a nice look -- but I don't have any particular 
interest in imitating Mac or Windows (both of which I think are 
pretty ugly). Can the Squeak list put forth some designs that are 
more than skins?

Cheers,

Alan

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At 10:29 AM +1000 6/21/00, Mike Thomas wrote:
>Hi Stephan.
>
>I agree with you.  This seems to be a commonly stated view on this list, but
>there seems to be some kind of historical momentum built up which is not
>going away in a hurry.  On one level that is fair enough too if that is what
>the people who do the work want (the open source do it yourself philosophy).
>
>The cutting edge in "attractive" look-and-feel for me is game interfaces,
>especially from a childs point of view.  The integration of nice images into
>a UI is a great way to invite the user in.  Kai's Power Tools also had some
>revolutionary and much copied ideas.  Some of the latest music software is
>starting to "get down" with interesting and inviting interfaces.
>
>For business users/office types, the native OS look and feel are essential,
>especially "the 3D look", restrained (dare I say tasteful) default colours,
>and menus and mouse button actions which reflect common interaction idioms.
>
>Cheers
>
>Mike Thomas.





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