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"When I sat down to think about it, the typical GUI design does not present a very good “it always works the same” interface that would be good for a child."

See RISC OS, the old Acorn Computers UI. It was designed exactly this way.

Back to the present, would Sugar be any good for these two? Seems 'monotonous' in the Raskin sense and child freindly.



I've never gotten to use RISC OS; could you say a little more about what you mean? Just that it was very consistent?


Yup, one way of doing each action. Was designed to be used by primary school children and the networked versions administered by primary teachers.


Thanks. I'll have to dig up a YouTube video showing around the system, sounds interesting.


Then you can try ROX (rox-filer) which try to recreate in a modern way, the Risc-OS experience. And it's a damn fine file manager, anyhow.




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