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Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2002 13:15 schrieb Karl Goiser:

> It is my belief that Squeak's "unique" user interface means a killer
> application will never be built using it.  I cannot believe that
> anybody in their right mind would try to distribute an application
> that would look so "different" compared to the straight and narrow
> of, e.g., the Mac or Windows look and feel.

Well, I myself think this is an advantage. A completely different UI makes the 
user feel -- if it is pretty -- that there is innovation in the box. Every MS 
office application has been shipped with a completely new GUI, that violates 
a bunch of previous design guidelines -- and gosh: they were succesful.

squeaks UI ist just a little sluggish on my pc, which makes it a little hard 
again. another problem is that its relatively hard to ship your app really as 
only your app. 
if i imagine shipping something with squeak, then soon the user will find out 
that theres more in the image than just my app. he might find an irc client, 
lots of ways to debug my code and change it, but to be honest i dont want 
that. 
how do you explain to a client that you didnt ship what he bought, but instead 
a huge scary bunch of things, and the worst: something that looks so fragible 
at first glance. 
and it _is_ fragible: when the user does something wrong, he might drag my app 
into the trash bin and then you can imagine him whining and asking with 
reason: "why do i ship my app with a self-destruction button?". a solution 
could be to ship as etoy, and i think this is a reasonable effort. 
is it true that once i shift my image into etoy mode, theres no way back? that 
would be exactly what i want.

regards,

nick


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