jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) (02/07/89)
I am glad to see that people are starting to turn away from the widget==window usage of the X resources with `new' windowless gadgets. My first exposure to the term `gadgets' was with the Amiga. Is this the first time that this term was used? Pardon my ignorance, but those claiming to make up this term seem to be more than singular. Who is the inventor of the `gadget' term (used in this fashion)? -Jim Becker
Kimbrough@dsg.csc.ti.COM (Kerry Kimbrough) (02/08/89)
> Who is the inventor of the `gadget' term (used in this fashion)?
Whoever it was, he/she did us no favor. This is second only to "widget" as the
most aggressively meaningless bit of jargon ever promoted.papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (02/08/89)
In article <2811867126-106302@Sierra> Kimbrough@dsg.csc.ti.COM (Kerry Kimbrough) writes: > > Who is the inventor of the `gadget' term (used in this fashion)? > >Whoever it was, he/she did us no favor. This is second only to "widget" as the >most aggressively meaningless bit of jargon ever promoted. The term "gadget" has been used since 1985 when the Commodore Amiga was released. Amiga gadgets are part of the Amiga Intuition User Interface. As with the X11 gadgets, they are windowless. Intuition comes with built- -in support for label gadgets, toggle gadgets, button gadgets, string gadgets, proportional gadgets (a more general version of a scrollbar gadget). -- Marco Papa -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) (02/16/89)
>> Who is the inventor of the 'gadget' term (used in this fashion)?
I believe the term originated in the photography field, where the various
attachments to cameras came to be known as "gadgets"
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