From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 15 10:56:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA27091 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:56:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA27029 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05716; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:55:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:55:58 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: Sean Kelly cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard In-Reply-To: <199607150113.BAA18233@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > Except that road signs usually aren't lined up in a perfect, uniform > row in a toolbar, with all the same widths, heights, and all the same > colors. Depends on where you drive. Shall I send out some photos of real road signs? :-) Around here there are a couple places that have uniform rows of 6-8 rectangular white signs with black two digit highway numbers and arrows. They are impossible to use unless you have the good fortune to hit a red light so you can stop and study them for a while. At the other end, you can have 6-8 signs with different shapes and colors for the type of road (state highway, US interstate, turnpike, etc.) it is a simple matter to pick out the one you are after with a glance. > Warning, entering Edward Tufte mode: > > At each workstation are two powerful information processing units: the > brain and the computer. Yet all communication between these two units > must pass through the low-bandwidth computer monitor. Making > efficient use of monitor space is therefore paramount; destroy all > icons as they waste precious screen real estate! Hmm... I wouldn't associate Tufte with such a wholesale disposal of a visual communication tool. Then again, I've only read one of his books and it had almost nothing about computer interfaces. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================