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From: shani@TAURUS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Summary: ha!
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <929@taurus.BITNET>
Date: 25 Dec 88 13:02:22 GMT
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Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel
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In article <353@internal.Apple.COM>, casseres@apple.BITNET writes:
>
> Yes indeed.  The most striking thing about the "desktop" in the Lisa/Mac
> user interface is how little it resembles an actual desk top: just enough
> to provide familiarity and some intuitive operations.
>

sure! why what makes you think it you need anything more to create a physical
realety? (ask Jim Henson...)

Now seriously. The biggest disadvantage of the desktop is that it provides
order only in the level of a single window (I'm always having a hard time
with remembering where the hell I left that damn' window?), and I think
HyperCard is a soloution to that and to most of the other disadvantages of
the desktop. Don't you?

O.S.