osOpinion: Rethinking the GUI | Linux Today

osOpinion: Rethinking the GUI

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 27, 1999

[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill
for this link. ]

“W.I.M.P.”

“Windows Icons Mouse Pointer…”

“Anyone trained on a Windows desktop can move across to KDE or
BeOS and be proficient in a day or two, and vice versa. But
while the WIMP environment may have been a vast improvement in
usability over the old CLI setup, for end-users if not for hardcore
geeks, the cracks are starting to show…


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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