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From: kees@echelon.nl (Kees Hendrikse)
Subject: Re: Any progress on K95 GUI?
Date: 20 Jul 1999 00:05:05 GMT
Organization: Echelon bv Consultancy & Software Development
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:56:22, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
wrote:
> From the replies so far it seems like K95 is used mainly by GUI-haters. I'm
> sure that can't be true, ....
I guess the cross-section of people that use K-95 *and* read this group
tends to be on that side of the spectrum.
> .... since 50% of our registration cards contain "Real GUI!" in the
> suggestion section.
I don't think we see those people here!
> But adding a second interface that totally mirrors the first seems like
> overkill, and I would be surprised if anybody really wants that. Using such
> an interface would be enormously labor intensive, and it would not
> necessarily be any easier with hundreds of dialog boxes to hunt through. So
> which dialogs do you think should be available in GUI form?
Maybe target the two interfaces at the two differend ends of the spectrum.
Equip the GUI with the stuff most GUI-users tend to use and leave all the
exotics available only through the commandline interface/ini files.
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Kees Hendrikse | email: kees@echelon.nl
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