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- From: kevinc@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
- Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
- Message-ID: <kevinc.716163136@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 22:12:16 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.182548.2932@nntp.uoregon.edu> <id.Q4NS.1SE@ferranti.com><NEERI.92Aug25180329@iis.ethz.ch><1992Sep1.145034.4126@gdstech.grumman.com> <MELBY.92Sep3004055@dove.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP>
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- melby@dove.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) writes:
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- >>What is "chrome"?
- >Chrome is a rust-resistant metal which is often used to plate iron.
- >Eventually, the chrome peels off, exposing the rust underneath.
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- >The term seems to refer to extra baggage of a GUI which is "showing
- >its age." In particular (based on the current discussion):
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- >(1) Awkward features which are included in a GUI for backwards compatibility
- > with an earlier look-and-feel.
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- >(2) New features in a long-established GUI which essentially do little but
- > add complexity and clutter.
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- Let me add another current "interpretation".
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- (3) Glitter or gloss used to dress (up) otherwise plain vanilla
- visual presentations without adding functionality.
- --
- Kevin "autark" Crocker (Athabasca University)
- kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA -or- risk@cs.AthabascaU.CA
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