576XE Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 GUI Mountain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Call it 'Fuji-GUI' (fooji-gooey) How about "Hong Kong Fooji"? We can put a Fuji logo on his robe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 FJG ("FlashJazzGUI")? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 How about "Hong Kong Fooji"? We can put a Fuji logo on his robe. Heh - if the finished product is a dog, we'll call it that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Call it 'Fuji-GUI' (fooji-gooey) How about "Hong Kong Fooji"? We can put a Fuji logo on his robe. or "Hong Kong GUI"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 or "Hong Kong GUI"... Heh - brilliant! That's decided then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 or "Hong Kong GUI"... Heh - brilliant! That's decided then. Hong Kong GUI version K-9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 demo! demo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 The name should contain or be based on one or more of the following: "flash", "jazz", "cat". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 The name should contain or be based on one or more of the following: "flash", "jazz", "cat". Two words - Jay Motherfuc^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hiner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 (...) I seem to remember FujiX as the name... (...) ...In technical Marketing and Sales, that is usually called "recall-factor". If you remembered it, is because "FujiX" has a good recall-factor, it stuck well, it is short enough, it is fluid, and still survives a verbal/phonetical contraction without distorting its literal name ("Fuji" and "X" can be linked and pronounced in once single stroke, without pausing). Besides it, only stuff like "FlashGUI" or "FujiGUI" could probably make it. The rest are just non-cohesive, disarticulate attempts / shots that eventually act in detriment of the quality, meaning or relevance of the product on-hand. No pun intended (and it is clear that for many around here this is just fun), but using "Honk-Kong GUI" has a rather cheap, copy-cat, bottom-of-the-barrel connotation to it. In fact, it is PLAIN PATHETIC. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 No pun intended (and it is clear that for many around here this is just fun), but using "Honk-Kong GUI" has a rather cheap, copy-cat, bottom-of-the-barrel connotation to it. In fact, it is PLAIN PATHETIC. Alright that's it! Everybody gets to try the demo for the up and coming "Hong Kong GUI" except Faicuai. Distribution will be done by yours truly through PM ONLY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 (edited) Aw man - I thought "Hong Kong GUI" was an entirely serious suggestion. There's nothing inherently wrong with Fuji-X, although one drawback is that there's no implicit indication of what it is. Fuji-X could quite easily be old 35mm film stock, for example. SpartaDOS X has "DOS" in it, Mac OS X has "OS" in it, GEM is an acronym for "Graphical Environment Manager"... I can go on... GEOS, Diamond GOS. Meanwhile, Fuji-GUI or anything with the "GUI" at the end is too much of a mouthful. One of the reasons I'm cooling to Fuji-anything generally is that it's the one suggestion we seem to keep coming back to here on the forum, while MrFish and I hammered out a list of sixty or seventy diverse suggestions last year which we've whittled down to less than a dozen. The "persistence" of Fuji may say more about some of the other suggestions than about Fuji itself... Anyway: demo's taking shape and you'll be able to test icon and list views. I've just been playing with two side-by-side list view (filename only) windows to see how responsive they feel. There were some comments made months ago about the usefulness of drag and drop between windows on a system this size: I believe the arrangment shown below will be very workable for day-to-day file maintenance: Note: scrollbars should at the very least be deactivated when they're not relevant on a particular axis. I make no promises that that will be done in the demo. Edited May 23, 2012 by flashjazzcat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 (...) Alright that's it! Everybody gets to try the demo for the up and coming "Hong Kong GUI" except Faicuai. Distribution will be done by yours truly through PM ONLY. (...) Even MORE pathetic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonl Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 The name should contain or be based on one or more of the following: "flash", "jazz", "cat". Two words - Jay Motherfuc^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hiner Given it's providing windows etc. for the A8, how about calling it "Atari800Win"? That should avoid any confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBuell Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Maybe we should talk to Mike Rowe (not the US TV host, the Canadian student who was sued by Microsoft over the mikerowesoft.com domain). We could get his blessing and call it Mike Rowe Windows? Nah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Fugi "Fuji user graphical interface" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Maybe we should think how ATARI themselves would name it, had it been written in those days? GEM-8? Flash-GEM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Maybe we should think how ATARI themselves would name it, had it been written in those days? GEM-8? Flash-GEM? Who named GEM though, Atari or Digital Research Inc.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 @MrFish: GEM was named by Digital Research Inc. It's name is a retroactive acronym, originally it was just called Gem because the initial project to turn their GSX retargetable graphics library into a workable graphical context system was called "Crystal"...which, in and of itself was a play on IBM's code name for a GUI called "Project Glass" ... basically, GSX became VDI, and AES was added to handle the interaction bits. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
576XE Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 FUGI means FJC and Fish GI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 @MrFish: GEM was named by Digital Research Inc. It's name is a retroactive acronym, originally it was just called Gem because the initial project to turn their GSX retargetable graphics library into a workable graphical context system was called "Crystal"...which, in and of itself was a play on IBM's code name for a GUI called "Project Glass" ... basically, GSX became VDI, and AES was added to handle the interaction bits. Thanks for answering -- it was a semi-rhetorical question. I guess Diamond was trying to follow GEM in naming and style. We're borrowing from GEM, but our borrowing leans more heavily towards the Mac and Windows. Jon and I both like acronyms, or piles of letters stuck together as they turn out sometimes. A decent name is important, but it's what the OS can do that will affect people's impressions more than anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 What about CatFish? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Actually, when you think about it, Microsoft's OS name isn't very creative at all, "Windows"? The Mac was even less creative in that they didn't really name the OS, until much later. I guess the name they used was more for the hardware and the software together, "Macintosh", so they didn't really feel a name for the OS was necessary in the beginning -- It was just called "System" + whatever version number they were at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
31336haxx0r Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I like that! But no one will know then it's a GUI, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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