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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The method for LEAPing seems clunky to me, but I guess that's what I get for not having a special LEAP key on the keyboard. Ditto for entering commands. But maybe I'm just not used to it, as said...
To really appreciate such an environment, you have to use it on a Cannon Cat, which some of the concepts behind THE were originally designed for. The two keys for leaping are located right below the space bar (they are side by side and each is half the length of the spacebar). Since your thumbs usually rest right around the spacebar area anyhow, it's not that big of a task to hit LEAP. And since LEAP keys act like left & right cursor keys when you hit them by themselves (no having to use seperate cursor keys located in some far and distant section of the keyboard).
I've got a Cannon Cat, and one of the best things about LEAP is that it allows you to do an incremental search (like on emacs) for a work you're looking for. You get a big speed boost from doing this because you don't have to do a visual search+scroll for the targeted work, you just start typing it. And it's far more modeless than, say, a "Find" dialog.