Re: [Ayatana] Need ability to close windows from within "Spread Mode" (super+W)

[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 20:59, Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Those are all great, but how do they relate to touch interfaces? Are
touch interfaces inherently invalid in the eyes of the UNIX
philosophy? This is ironic, since I believe well over 90% of
touch-based OSs in use are UNIX-based.

Android has a Linux Kernel, WebOS runs on Linux, iOS is Unix-based, so yeah.

To be Unix-like in my opinion has more to do with lower level concepts and philosophy, it is less GUI related.

If a button is difficult to hit because it is too small a target area for a pointer, that has nothing to do with Unix-like or not, it's Fitt's law or simply HCI. And it is irrelevant, whether we are talking about a touch-device, a mouse operated device or what ever other pointer-based HID have you.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:50, Chad M/ Germann <cgermann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:52 +0100, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> how do you define Unix-like in 2011?
>
> In a nutshell Keep it Simple, Stupid.
>
> to expand.
>
>  1. Small is beautiful.

beautiful is mostly also useful, but not always usable.

 

>     2. Make each program do one thing well.

true, ..and name it after that thing, too, so that the user can identify the purpose rather than the manufacturer.

 

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>     9. Make every program a filter

hot, interesting! i think this might be the idea behind lenses and prisms.

 

>    11. Separate policy from mechanism; separate interfaces from

>        engines.

a good way of thinking often..

This corresponds with the "Walt-Disney Method"

>    15. Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to

>        machine time

what about user time? How expensive is that?