Star The Humane Environment
Linked by Kevin Adams on Thu 26th Dec 2002 03:38 UTC
Mac OS X Pahtz writes: "A very alpha release of The Humane Environment (THE) for MacOS was made on Christmas Eve. Jef Raskin, creator Apple's Macintosh, and author of the book "The Humane Interface", is the leader of the open-source THE Development Team."
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Text editing only?
by Don Cox on Thu 26th Dec 2002 16:55 UTC

Is this environment just for text editing?

Text editing is a fairly simple task and really isn't a problem for
most computer users. The problem is how to make a good interface for
the big complex programs such as 3D modelling and animation programs,
music composition programs (Cubase etc), architectural CAD, etc.

Let's see Mr Raskin do a total redesign of Photoshop's interface, so
that nobody would have to take a course to learn how to use it.
Or Quark XPress, perhaps.

(Photoshop already saves an undo history as you work. Saving this with
the image files would result in enormous files.)