Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!guido From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: The Last Screensaver Message-ID: <310@piring.cwi.nl> Date: 10 May 88 08:57:09 GMT References: <900003@zaphod> <5241@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Organization: The Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Amoebae Lines: 19 My God, here we are discussing the ultimate screen saver, designing a programmer's interface for it and all in full generality... Surely there are areas of the Mac that more sorely need an improved interface than the screen saver. Screen savers to me seem the ultimate target for show-offs. All I want from a screen saver is that my screen blanks while showing a little bit of activity to distinguish it from a machine that's off. In fact I want it to move as little as possible, because fireworks are only distracting when I'm reading papers or talking to someone in my office. If we want to improve part of the Mac, how about inventing a transparent way to get rid of the Font/DA mover? I'd like to be able to drag fonts and DA's into and out of the system folder. No need to reboot (restarting application's OK). Much better user interface, conceptually clear. -- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net