Xref: utzoo comp.cog-eng:640 comp.software-eng:822
Checksum: 11461
Path: utzoo!utgpu!woods
From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Mon, 19-Sep-88 00:39:42 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Sep19.003942.16124@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: G. A. W. Consulting
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK
References: <21787@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4775@whuts.UUCP> <762@esl.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods)

I'm extremely happy to see the positive response given to OPEN LOOK.

When it was first described to me (by Bill Joy in his keynote speach at
Unix/etc.88 in Toronto), it "felt" right.

To summarize prvious poster's thoughts, and to state my thoughts briefly
try this:

The artistic and stylistic content of an application should _NOT_ be in
the user interface to the application, but in the use, operation, and
results of the application.

If you waste your creativity building yet-another user interface, you
will likely have a less useful application, and you will probably have
violated any other existing user interface standards.

BTW: OPEN LOOK, though technically is just a specification, there are
also promised implementations for major windowing systems.
-- 
						Greg Woods.

UUCP: utgpu!woods, utgpu!{ontmoh, ontmoh!ixpierre}!woods
VOICE: (416) 242-7572 [h]		LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada