On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 07 October 2002 05:56 pm, Gigi Duru wrote:
> > --- Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org> wrote:
> > > 8000 controls you have to individually tweak to do
> > > anything is not
> > > necessarily an improvement over a single "do what I
> > > want" button. (User
> > > Interface Design 101.)
> > >
> > > The doorknob is a wonderful user interface...
> >
> > try driving your car using a doorknob ;)
>
> The steering wheel is fundamentally different? (It's certainly BIGGER...)
Actually, I believe the wheel, and the rest of the user interface for an
auto (gas pedal, brake) are a fine metaphor for this discussion. The user
interface for a car hasn't changed in how many years? That is despite
quite a number of technological devleopments under the hood. Having a
simple user interface for the "novice" doesn't prevent all kinds of weird
shifting, throttle control, etc. additions for the "expert". Having a
single doorknob which controls, in a gross way, the action of a large
number of "sub-knobs" is good. Giving access to the "sub-knobs" for the
expert is even better.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Oct 15 2002 - 22:00:24 EST