Desktop Metaphor

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 05:38:10 CDT 2018


On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 22:56, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> It's perfectly possible to use GUIs without any icons.
>
> It's possible to use GUIs without a mouse.
>
> The GUI is not responsible for what people do with them / the mouse.

Exactly so.

Oberon is a good example of a GUI with no icons. It is text-based -- a
TUI -- but graphical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)


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