I totally agree when he says what a
shame it is that Linux GUIs have copied what
Windows has done.
Instead of finding new ways of doing things,
they concentrate too much on stealing
users to Microsoft. Start Menus and
Explorer-like File browsers are the bait. But a
system like UN*X deserves a radical new
concept to manage all its possibilities in
a graphical manner.
It has surprised me the fact of inconsistencies
between the file requesters and file browsers:
I instantly remembered of a Devcon93 paper
(that you can find among Dave Haynie's file
archive). In it, Commodore programers
described some changes they wanted to
do (and never commited) to the Workbench
UI. They especifically talked about making
Workbench file-browser coherent with ASL
requesters. Was it a sign of moving in the
right way?
Any article talking about changing User
interfaces from the ground up is interesting.
