Re: Looking old (or even worse....Ugly) - The perpetual myth of iSeries Obsolescence

[Reeve <rfritchman@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's the "Java" look...that's the only way I can explain it!

-reeve


On 5/5/06, Geeky400 <Geeky400@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is the 5250 emulator the main reason to make our favourite machine look
> obsolete??
>
> I am not too sure about that... The "green screen" part of it does not
> bother me at all... It is the way it is, it has always been like that
> and it is hardly going to get any different. What I think is terribly
> old fashioned and dated, not to mention ugly, is the set of buttons in
> Client Access. Have these changed at all since the very first version of
> CA or PCS? Which part of this window looks worse? The black/green part
> of it or the buttons just above?
>
> Well, I have yet to find a GUI attempt from IBM (that includes Lotus
> products) that does not look severely unattractive, old fashioned,
> un-user-friendly, etc...
>
> My point here is just to say that  if buttons, icons and what not are
> being added to a Green Screen world, they might as well be well designed
> and look good.
>
>
> Anyone interested in joining the Church of Good Looking Icons and
> Buttons in A Green Screen World ?
>
>
> G4!
>
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