[openbeos] Re: ShowImage Bloat
- From: Helmar Rudolph <helmar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:52:54 +0200
Simon Taylor wrote:
> instead before openning the image in ShowImage, I think
> "I need to invert that image, I'll use ArtPaint". The
> right tool for the right job.
That's the conventional - and in my opinion archaic /
outdated - thinking that most of us are stuck with. It's the
Windows way of doing things: open an application to perform
a task. "View Image with ShowImage", "Edit Image with
ArtPaint", "Load image bytes into memory before displaying
it with ShowImage in order to later edit it with ArtPaint
with LoadImageBytesButDontDoAnythingElse". You get the drift.
What I think is needed - and there has been a discussion on
this (tool chain) on the GE list a while ago - is a way to
modularize everything, simply so that you don't have to open
any particular application. In some ways it would make
applications redundant, because there is an intelligent
interface that recognises the MIME type and offers (grouped)
(and available) functions that apply to this particular type.
Sure, a GUI would pop up in most cases, but then it's no
longer ShowImage, ArtPaint or
LoadImageBytesButDontDoAnythingElse.
> With open source comes a lot of freedom
Yeah, but hardly ever the mindset that questions and then
changes the current status quo so that computers can be
operated by anyone and without first having to read
"MyComputer for Dummies".
I know R1 won't be like that, but here's to hoping that R2
isn't yet another dumb wannabe clone of other systems that
20 years after the first PC came out are pretty much on the
same evolutionary level. OBOS can make history, but first
its developers and constructors need to understand same.
/me ducking again. :)
Helmar
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