From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:59:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190723135901.GJ27308@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_g1+o-c9_--80JP8wj=SK4VEcsZutY8ztJ_VCe7M=64A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:46:39AM -0400, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 09:40, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> > And who knows what the "terminology du jour" will be in 10 years. This
> > industry is currently very much fad-driven.
>
> The term "window" has been pretty long-lived.
That's true. Perhaps (?) it was in use already with PARC's Alto, so around
1973.
But I think at that time terminology wasn't so clear. "Windows" were
also of the non-overlapping kind (think tiling window manager these
days), i.e. exactly what Emacs is doing :-)
> > So imagine Emacs (painfully) changes window -> pane and frame -> window,
> > and the dominant technology talks about "trays" and "vanes". Or something.
>
> That would still be better, because we wouldn't have the Emacs-window
> vs Other-Gui-window meaning conflict.
:-)
Cheers
-- t
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-23 6:46 Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs 조성빈
2019-07-23 9:37 ` Jean Louis
2019-07-23 10:13 ` 조성빈
2019-07-23 17:03 ` Gerhard Wolfstieg
2019-07-23 19:17 ` tomas
2019-07-23 22:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-23 10:44 ` tomas
2019-07-23 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-23 16:15 ` tomas
2019-07-23 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-03 17:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-08-01 1:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-07-23 11:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-23 13:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-23 13:11 ` MBR
2019-07-23 13:40 ` tomas
2019-07-23 13:46 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-23 13:59 ` tomas [this message]
2019-07-23 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-03 17:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-08-01 1:55 ` Emanuel Berg
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