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