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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by Don Cox on Tue 31st Dec 2002 09:58 UTC

"As I am sure you will know, Don, not all Amiga programs open up their own screen. Internet browsers
usually run in a window on Workbench."

I think that would be highly unusual. It would never occur to me to
run a browser such as Voyager in a window on the Workbench screen.
This is just the kind of program that most benefits from the public
screens system.

I have come across a few Amiga users who mainly use Windows and prefer
to run all programs on one screen (and set up a Windows-like Start
menu). The same people would want a task bar and start menu on a Mac.

"Heh ;) You should really go and take a beginner's course for computer illiterates. You would be surprised to
see how seemingly 'stupid' (no offence!) some people can be. Not everyone is able to grasp the concepts of
modern graphical user interfaces within a few days, not even weeks sometimes. And some of these people
are actually highly educated in normal life... "

I've taught hundreds of beginners on courses of that type. However,
nowadays everyone seems to learn Windows in schools, and computer
beginners are rarely seen (by me).