17 Oct
2003
17 Oct
'03
4:54 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:02:12PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
fair enough. and it looks like this is a clone of an actual piece of
hardware. So there were compelling reasons to go that route, even though I think
stuff like this is decidedly non-optimal to use...
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
Look! Up in the sky! It's QUASI PUMPER!
(random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
Seriously
though... that looks like it would be a pretty nice piece of
*hardware*, if it were about 30" wide or so. For control with a mouse
on a ~ 15" wide monitor, yuck. Sigh... I still don't understand why so
many people don't try to come up with an interface that makes good use
of the actual interface resources as opposed to imaginary resources :-)
because thats a lot more work. doing stuff like this (once you have a
pixmap based toolkit in place) is easy, easy, easy. devising new
metaphors and analogies for the UI is tough, often like a research
project.