I wish there were more really great mouse-oriented UIs. VisualAge Smalltalk was one of the best I ever used, for two reasons:
1️⃣ Ubiquitous context menus (speed and discoverability)
2️⃣ "Remove from list" to cull items that you're done with, or are irrelevant to your task
1️⃣ Ubiquitous context menus (speed and discoverability)
2️⃣ "Remove from list" to cull items that you're done with, or are irrelevant to your task
Examples of "Remove from list" —
- Reviewing diffs: you can remove method/class/module when you're done reviewing, and slowly prune down the list.
- Browsing senders/implementors: you can quickly remove items that are not relevant.
- Reviewing diffs: you can remove method/class/module when you're done reviewing, and slowly prune down the list.
- Browsing senders/implementors: you can quickly remove items that are not relevant.
Oberon and Acme are some other examples of powerful mouse-oriented UIs. What are some others?
I really like what @pketh is doing with @KinopioClub, with crossing selection and things like "Select all below" twitter.com/KinopioClub/st…
@jackrusher mentioned Cedar, and I managed to find a great demo video from @ComputerHistory: youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7N…
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