[openbeos] Re: Tracker icons
- From: "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:32:05 +0200 CEST
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 Please go into the details and define outdated.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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