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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@ Don Cox
"Why have none of the people who claim to be experts on interfaces ever used Amigas?"
The Amiga interface is not as good as you seem to think. If you leave out things like the clear directory structure of AmigaOS and just analyze the graphical user interface, you will notice that it has as many flaws as most other interfaces. Although AmigaOS is well remembered for its multitasking, switching between applications (-> "screens") can be rather annoying. In MacOS (and BeOS), users have a full list of all currently running applications which can be opened with just a single click. They just need to pick one and click again using their mouse. In Windows, all currently running applications are permanently shown in the task bar. There is no need to open any list at all, you simply choose an application and click your left mouse button. Both, the MacOS and Windows ways, are definetely easier than having to click on a small "switch to next screen" button several times (AmigaOS).
Obviously, this is just a minor example but I don't want to give too many hints to our competition. Rest assured that there are *many* ideas on how to improve the original AmigaOS interface. Just wait for future versions of the MorphOS UI, and you will see what I am talking about.
It should not come as a surprise that an 8-years-old user interface leaves room for a LOI of improvements...