Chris MartinThe notion that people choose to use computer applications because they are useful at accomplishing tasks is extremely outdated. The vast majority of software use is not voluntary.
We choose or are required to engage with a person, organization, business, government. They dictate what software to use for the interaction based on what is most convenient and advantageous to them.
I have been thinking about this ever since years ago Julie explained to me that the reason she dislikes graphical user interfaces is they feel like prisons because to a much larger extent they are an experience fully orchestrated by somebody else.
Nova🐧✨@chris__martin if only we had standards that were actually USED BY ORGS gndwaslkjgnsadl;kjgndsak what the hell, we could have avoided the proprietary GUI hellscape
LisPi@technobaboo @chris__martin It's not just a question of standards.
Most (all?) GUI specifications for both UNIX-likes and the Microsoft systems suck in comparison to what BeOS' enabled. They simply do not allow as much even when actually implemented.
Most (all?) GUI specifications for both UNIX-likes and the Microsoft systems suck in comparison to what BeOS' enabled. They simply do not allow as much even when actually implemented.
@lispi314 @chris__martin oooh do tell! what makes the BeOS display server protocol so good?