Re: GIMP and Photoshop user interfaces

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:16:11 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

You guys forget Xerox PARC, which Apple acknowledged and the Amiga
which was way ahead of the rest but got left behind ...

The Amiga had multiple “desktops”, which were really just different screen
modes because different apps wanted to run in different modes and this was
the only way to let them coexist.

The “Copper” display chip was clever in being able to switch modes between
one scan line and the next, but that limited the desktop stacking to only
being doable vertically.

In other words, it worked the way it did because of hardware limitations,
not because it was a good way to design a UI.