Re: helping the user is not an error

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: helping the user is not an error
Date: 13:01 on 24 May 2006
On May 23, 2006, at 2:30 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> How much skin do you need? Or better how bare can you strip it?

Who cares? The BIG problem with skinnable apps is that they never ever 
*behave* consistently with the native UI (or, in the case of X11, with 
any of the native UIs). Even if you replicate the native UI perfectly 
in the most efficient skin in teh world, it's still a separate 
implementation and will differ in maddeningly subtle and nauseatingly 
unsubtle ways.

I want a GUI where the server does such a fast and efficient and 
user-friendly job of rendering user-configurable widgets directly, and 
only passes complete operations back to the application, so that people 
who write skinnable apps for it are lynched. The horrible thing is, the 
closest thing we have to that is a web-browser, and people actually 
LIKE web pages that micromanage the UI in horrid and incompatible ways.

(hate-users.com, ISAGN)

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