Re: Of applications and documents

[Chad Hardin]

True, the typical user finds such a system too complicated.  You ever 
watch someone use OS/2 for the first time, they're completely lost and 
confused.  In my opinion, people want to use their computer to do tasks, 
not manipulate objects.

Chad


Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> For example,  the first  step would probably  to remove the  menus, as
> they're known.  Each  object should have its own  pop-up menu, used to
> send them their  proper messages.  Users are not  ready to accept that
> it seems.
>
> Smalltalk was close to that. Oberon too.
>
>