Re: Some thoughts for the future

From: Brian Mury (b.mury_at_ieee.org)
Date: 06/30/05

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    On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:14 -0700, Richard Kelsch wrote:
    > > Function over form, ya know...
    > >
    > Good eye candy, implemented properly should not detract from
    > functionality,

    That's sometimes true, and sometimes not true.

    I find that eye candy, by it's very nature, can distract from the
    useability.

    > and should, in fact, increase functionality as not all eye-candy is
    > for special effects, but can be part of function. For example, the
    > simple bouncing icon of a program loading in Apple's Aqua is, in my
    > opinion, eye candy improving functionality.

    I would call that a feature, or functionality; I wouldn't call it eye
    candy! :-) And BTW, would be a good feature for Gnome.

    > I think for those (the 1 or 3 of you out there) with a wife or
    > girlfriend

    Uh... girl-what???

    > until programmers finally get together with artists and designers.
    > Both would be surprised what the end result can do.

    I think it's possible to have something that looks good without falling
    under the "eye candy" classification.

    Anyway, I don't think eye candy is necessarily bad; I think it's often a
    (not always) a tradeoff between form and function, and I personally
    prefer function. No reason not to have eye candy available, especially
    if I can turn it off when it starts distracting/annoying me. 

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