Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!unido!materna!elwood!tb From: tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Ware Ware Wizardjin ... Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 09:25:38 GMT References: <70319@brunix.UUCP> <27F43DE6.4B53@wilbur.coyote.trw.com> <564@bria> <12535@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Apr9.001642.13711@ico.isc.com> <177@bria.UUCP> Sender: root@Materna.DE Lines: 25 mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik) writes: >All of the cutesy three dimensional shaded windows that explode in 32 colors >as they open are a complete waste of time and money. Users are concerned >about *getting the job done* and nothing that I have seen in recent years >has really advanced this point. In other, less eloquent words: "If your pour Not quite right. I've seen quite a lot of users who really didn't know what they wanted, but who had been exposed to whizbang Interfaces for to long a time to understand that this was certainly not what they needed. The baseline is that in order for me to get my stuff sold I have to play the game and incorporate all that silly 3D (when's 4D to come :-) stuff into my programs. Although they get slower, in certain cases harder to use, this is what a lot of customers want. Any idea of how to bring such people back to the right way ? ciao -Torsten -- Torsten Beyer e-mail : tb@Materna.DE Dr. Materna GmbH VOX : +49 231 5599 225 Vosskuhle 37 FAX : +49 231 5599 100 D-4600 Dortmund 1, West Germany