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User Interfaces in Free Software

Posted by michael on from the too-many-widgets-spoil-the-desktop dept.

Havoc Pennington wrote a piece on creating good user interfaces, with special attention toward GNOME 2. See also the advogato thread.

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  1. Re:Making free software mainstream by Superkind · · Score: 2, Funny
    UI design is not about being pretty, it's about being usable.
    Free/Open Source Software tends to fail both requirements.
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  2. How on earth by rant-mode-on · · Score: 3, Funny

    How on earth am I expected to come up with decent user interface? I'm a geek, I don't even have a decent human interface!

  3. At least he's honest... by dstone · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the article: I don't have any genius definition of "good UI"; I'm not a UI expert.

    Super. I stopped reading right about there.

  4. Re:Worth reading by Space+Coyote · · Score: 2, Funny

    IS there some corollary to Godwin's law that can account for when people bring up the 1-button mouse? :)

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  5. mpt by cpeterso · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do geeks and especially graduate students insist on refering to themselves by their three initials, such as the article's author mpt (Matthew Thomas)? My theory is that they are vain and pretentious. To assume that THEY ALONE would be uniquely identified by some three letter abbreviation is quite an assumption of their self-importance..

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