Re: helping the user is not an error

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Re: helping the user is not an error
Date: 12:39 on 23 May 2006
On 5/23/06, Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Back to the Amiga...  Programs that made their own widgets so they
> ignored the high res text and 3d look I got from patching Intuition to
> take advantage of my video card.
>
> And on Windows that's become pandemic, to the point where finding a
> non-skinned application for some classes of apps is actually
> impossible.

Don't remind me.

Why, in particular, do media players have to look like flowers or
who-knows-what? System default widgets might not look as if Christo
designed them but at least they're recognisable, so people know what
to expect! User interface guidelines are there for a reason, and even
Microsoft kinda-sorta sticks to them.
--=20
Philip Newton <philip.newton@xxxxx.xxx>
There's stuff above here

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