Xref: utzoo comp.cog-eng:629 comp.software-eng:810 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!klaatu.rutgers.edu!josh From: josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK Message-ID: Date: 14 Sep 88 19:47:19 GMT References: <7099@well.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 shf@well writes: ... I object most strongly, however, to how OPEN LOOK has already made all of the aesthetic decisions. Sun hired a graphic designer and he set forth the look of OPEN LOOK. The appearance of windows, buttons, scroll bars, even the colors allowed are part of the specification. There is no room for innovation, no room for creativity. It's like requiring that everyone wear designer clothes from the same designer -- any other style of clothes are "non-standard." Like an other artist, I want full control of my media. OPEN LOOK takes this away. Personally, I think that traffic lights should be set into the pavement like catseye reflectors, in the center of the lane. There should be two lights, a blue one first, and then a red one. The blue light means "stop" (blue=cold=frozen) and the red one means "go" (red=hot=blazing speed). To warn of state changes, the blue light would blink for 3 seconds before turning on and the red (go) light turning off. All cars would have red and blue taillights. The red is an acceleration light (redshift = going away) and the blue are brakelights (blueshift = coming towards). See how neatly the meanings mesh with the traffic lights? Surely this is true art! --JoSH :^)