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- From: ekl@kvamdata.no (Eirik Lygre)
- Subject: Re: alarm applet don't work, why?
- Organization: Kvam data as
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:29:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.212910.7899@kvamdata.no>
- References: <92344.231403RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <djg2.724261120@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> <92350.095207BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
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- In article <92350.095207BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes:
- >
- >As a editorial comment in passing, I think that all the calendaring
- >applets work great, but in some sense they are overdesigned -- they are
- >just not simple enough. You have to go into them and tell them which
- >files to use, for example. The reason is good -- you can maintain multiple
- >sets of calendars -- a home calendar, a work calendar, your secretary's
- >calendar. Yet I believe that the applets could have been made a little
- >simpler to use without losing functionality.
- >
- >To me, the calendaring applets have the look and feel of something with
- >high function that was well designed by a large group, and the design was
- >complete before any coding was done -- typical high quality, professional
- >programming. Typical IBM.
- >
- >However, I can't help but feel that they would have been much better if
- >they really hadn't even been designed at all, if instead one sharp person
- >had gone away into a corner and just played around a little bit until
- >it was done. It would have been simpler, and it would have worked just
- >as well or better.
-
- The cool thing to do for IBM would be to redesign them into a real WPS
- object. Imaging that you open a calendar object -- your basic datafile.
- Up pops a folder. Not a program, but a freakin' regular folder! Except
- that it isn't really a folder, but a WPS object. Inside this "folder"
- are the applets. Now this would be a great example of the possibilities
- of the WPS -- and it would *greatly* simplify the use of these applets
-
- Eirik
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