[openbeos] Re: PnP, drivers, packages, etc.

  • From: Kevin Czapla <czapla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:35:30 -0700

Hello, Axel.

Actually, I have no idea what Marco has in mind in terms of uses or
functionality for device icons. He will have to speak for himself on that
point. 

Note that in my message I use the words "if...,then..." repeatedly. My
entire message is written in a hypothetical subjunctive mood. "If you were
to seek to satisfy some requirement, then this is what you could do...".
"Wenn man wurde...usw."

I make no claims whatsoever about the possible merits of Marco's proposed
requirements. In fact, I'm not in a position to make any such claims because
my technical expertise is so sorely lacking. But I did have a thought -- a
thought about means, not about ends -- and believed that it might be worth
sharing. Perhaps I was mistaken.

Certainly, evoking hostility was not among my intentions.

Czeslaw Czapla



> From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 04:14:30 +0200 CEST
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: PnP, drivers, packages, etc.
> 
> Kevin Czapla <czapla@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I do have a thought, however. Marco, you mentioned your concern that
>> if each
>> device were represented on the desktop by an icon, then the typically
>> clean,
>> spartan BeOS desktop would become cluttered with icons. Besides being
>> unappealing visually, this could actually make it difficult for the
>> user to
>> find the icon for one device in particular (among the crowds of
>> icons),
>> especially since desktop icon sorting seems to be unavailable as a
>> feature
>> in BeOS.
> 
> Right, as if that could not be fixed forever.
> Anyway, I don't get the "icon for evey device" idea at all. I don't see
> any purpose behind it. What would I do with a mouse icon on my desktop?
> Or one for the keyboard, or the sound card, or ... ???
> Hard drives, okay. Printers, well, maybe, not really needed at all
> there. Scanners, okay. Digital cameras, okay as well. But anything
> which would make sense to be there already is a mass storage device of
> some kind (with the exception of scanners, perhaps), and is already
> supported that way - by mounting it.
> 
> Adios...
> Axel.
> 
>

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