Harry Travis wrote:
>  Kris is simply wrong about the UI. It is just a natural evolution of
> organization of objects onscreen.

That's beside the point. Anything there is just a double of the 
original, and hence superfluous. And other that that, "natural" is an 
uttermost weak rule, and only a matter of customs and tradition. In 
Mongolia it's "natural" to burp in public, in the States it seems to be 
impolite.

>  MS just has the lion's share of
> desktops. Market share is all. But, just because the alpha male gets
> most of the sex in the pack or herd doesn't mean either that he invented
> it, or that doing it that way is evidence of domination of the
> independent will.
>   
My point it to try to gain new customers by mimicking M$ is a disparate 
and unfruitful. Point alas well proven by the facts: I can't see 
anywhere, nowhere any new customer.
Feel free to contradict met with some real figures.
> I maintain that THE preferred sort order for a folder of downloaded
> objects is order of receipt, most recent ones on top. (In ancient office
> days, that was called the "chron file".) The OS/2 WPS oddly doesn't
> permit this "reverse" sort order that is so obviously superior to me,
> (Why would I WANT to remember the alphabetic object for something I want
> to lay my hand and mind around in 10 minutes?) If the WPS offered that
> sort order, a REVERSE sort order,

I don't want a WPS order. I want things ordered in my way. That is 
Steven's point, that is my point.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris




 
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