[ale] ranting about new Ubuntu UI

[Jim Lynch]

What I don't understand is how they (the GUI designers mentioned in this 
thread) think that a UI for the iPad is any where usable by the 
traditional keyboard/mouse/display user.  Sure maybe there are some 
features that overlap, but for the most part, we've spent 25 years or 
more making a UI that fits the keyboard/mouse/display paradigm  work.   
When my monitor has a touch screen, I might think differently, then 
maybe not.  My arms would get very tired in a hurry and I don't think 
I'll ever be able to type faster than about 3 words per minute on a 
touch screen monitor.

By the way, us old men aren't universally unable to grasp the 
fundamentals of computer usage.  ;)

Jim.