[openbeos] Re: Tracker icons

Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On 2005-07-25 at 05:30:00 [-0400], Helmar Rudolph wrote:
> > Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > 
> > ... a sensible reply - almost as I would have expected it.
> > 
> > > Please go into the details and define outdated. What part of an 
> > > OS has 
> > > innovated in the past 10 years? Can you name a lot more than GUI?
> > 
> > Yes, first and foremost it would be the GUI, control widgets for 
> > instance. 
> > But it's also stuff like USB, SCSI, wifi, access to advanced 
> > motherboard/chip 
> > features, the file system - things that prevent one from writing 
> > end user 
> > applications that then enhance the user experience, which in turn 
> > determines 
> > the usefulness of the system (OS+apps). Remember the original 
> > thread: 
> > Haiku/BeOS being slow with small files.
> 
> So... a couple of new widgets and a couple of new drivers. I guess we 
> don't 
> have a whole lot of competition! :-) Seriously - Axel is right - not 
> a whole 
> lot of really new and interesting stuff has been done. 
>  
Frankly, R4 would have sufficed had we only had Photoshop and The Sims.  
Applications is really everything that matters at the end of the day.  
Granted, developers might like a nice environment to work in, but then 
again, have a look at the WIN32 API.

That's my stand point anyway.

-- Mikael

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