Linked by Kevin Adams on Thu 26th Dec 2002 03:38 UTC
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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After seeing a lot of head-scratching by the various posters on this board, I have decided to bring up a screenshot of an editing session I'm doing. However, guys, find a way to actually run the program before commenting on it... be informed! Even if it does mean getting a Mac :-)
LEAPing is still clunky on my poor old QWERTY keyboard (if only because I keep hitting / instead of ,), but I'm slowly getting used to the way selections work (which really is more humane). Alas, it uses colour to denote a lot of things (like the current selection)... I guess this is a stop-gap solution until they find a better way. With regards to patents, I thought that the copyright issues were with WASTE (the text engine) which they're slowly overhauling?
Lastly, I'd have to agree that THE really is getting rid of WIMP... no windows, icons, menus or pointers in this thing. However, the same might not be said about Raskin's idea of a zooming interface (also described in The Humane Interface).
http://www.calroth.net/temp/the.gif