Re: Zoomer-Brainwashing and UI's

Peter Merel (pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU)
Wed, 24 May 95 00:16 PDT

James Barr writes,

>I am definatly in favor of tweaking GEOS to get it to run
>optimally, and I am by far NOT slamming the "Expert+" mode concept,
>because that is one of GEOS's strengths--to seamlessly allow different
>interfaces as the user requires. But other than making the PDA look
>and act more "desktop-like", why use "Expert+"? I am curious to know what
>practical reasons people might have for using one flavor of the interface
>over another.

I think it's important to distinguish here between the Expert-mode that
you getwith uiMode=3, and Chris D's expert-plus mode. The former gives
you a desktop where you can see running apps, where the latter also
speeds things up, uses smaller fonts and narrower borders, includes
better ramcard drivers, runs more than 3 apps at once, fixes the double-
click speed, etc. etc.

I've gotten a lot more use from the marvellous device since installing
expert-plus-mode (and graffiti) and I like a desktop. I haven't tried
tweaking the uiMode back again while keeping the other expert-plus
stuff - I'm not certain why you would want to.

Pete.