On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 09:52 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:33 AM Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Years ago, I think about the time OSX first appeared, there were > > reports of an eminent industrial psychologist (whose name I've forgotten) > > who had said that all modern GUIs were downright wrong-headed. Does > > anybody remember? And was that insight ever followed up on? (I believe > > the guy died not long after writing that.) > > I don't recall that one, but I remember this little gem from Doug Gwyn in 1991: > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/EMpOm6PVQYo/zOBTPgoDpWMJ > > I liked his first sentence so much that it went into my quotes file. :-) Brian Kernighan's version of that (which I think is earlier) is "What You See is All You Get". poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
