> Hopefully everyone will stop worrying about fancy looking GUI and just
> make the application work and keep it simple!!!
This is symptomatic of our over-marketed, over-advertised culture where
we're brainwashed from an early age to believe that
shiny/loud/blinking/bloated is better than the widget you currently own.
It works, too. If it didn't work so well, you'd drive any old heap that
provides acceptable transportation, use any computer from 1996 with a
10Mbit Ethernet card (which is still faster than 90% of broadband
connections) or a 56K modem to just access e-mail using pine and browse
plain text files on the 'net using Lynx, etc... I know some people do,
but they're in the minority of consumers.
It can be argued that the improved user interfaces have enabled more
people to use computers. Since we're a fast food culture that wants
everything "on demand", you're not likely to see a rash of
Blackbox-on-Slackware users anytime soon.
There's a quote I heard the other day that really hit home with me
(paraphrased): "If you really don't like change, you'll like irrelevance
even less."
v/r,
Rich Morgan
Heavy Systems
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