Re: helping the user is not an error

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From: Chris Devers
Subject: Re: helping the user is not an error
Date: 17:39 on 23 May 2006
On Tue, 23 May 2006, A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> * Chris Devers <cdevers@xxxxx.xxx> [2006-05-23 14:45]:
> > On Tue, 23 May 2006, Yoz Grahame wrote:
> > > I *think* it's all Winamp's fault, but can't prove it. I'm
> > > actually genuinely interested in researching this for a
> > > reason - does anyone know what totally-user-skinnable apps
> > > existed before Winamp?
> > 
> > X11 ?
> 
> ...what?
 
I'm pretty sure X11 was pummeling people with ugly, yet pointlessly 
endlessly configurable diarrhetic UI abominations several years before 
Winamp came back to do the same thing with much less ambition. 

A UI that makes you hate playing music on your computer? Piffle.

X11 can make you hate turning the damn computer on in the first place.



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