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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor (Why any metaphor?)
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <3644@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 11 Jan 89 16:21:47 GMT
References: <390@skep2.ATT.COM> <77@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>
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In article <77@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox) writes:
>In article <390@skep2.ATT.COM> wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c]) writes:
>...
>>Most of the Mac-haters I know are touch-typists who don't
>>like moving their hands off the keyboard - the head-mouse
>>may be able to let them get the best of both worlds.
>...
>
>I'm different: I'm a Mac hater, I'm not a touch typest, and I don't mind
>moving my fingers off the keyboard.
>The reason I hate the Mac is its user interface - it forces you to conform
>too much, ie it is not customisable enough.  When I use UNIX I use tcsh
>(csh+command line editing via emacs style CTRL chars) with >40 aliases,
>highly customised emacs etc....

	Hmmm.  I'm forced to disagree.

	There is an excellant macro package available for the Mac
called QuicKeys which lets you assign virtually ANY (in Amiga parlance)
mouse/requestor/gadget/etc combo and assign it to virtually ANY keystroke.
For instance, I use a shift-control-option-command-del combination (on my
extended keyboard) to perform a system reset (under MultiFinder).  I now
have some semblance of harmony when moving between the Amiga, the Mac, and Unix.

	This hasn't always been true, by the way.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260

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