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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!rnzll3!sys3.pe1chl!rob From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Organization: PE1CHL Message-ID: <DpuJnE.9wF@pe1chl.ampr.org> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <316ECE94.61162F47@dark.mountain.stronghold> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 09:57:14 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21265 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:565 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3158 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2965 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17227 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45189 In <316ECE94.61162F47@dark.mountain.stronghold> "Mr. Wizard" <madscientist@dark.mountain.stronghold> writes: >Otherwise, X is perfect. I don't want a GUI that assumes that all users are >the same and all they need is a fancy way to push the same button in all >their apps. When I want a GUI I want: Maybe it is not what you want, but it certainly *is* the reason that X has not "made it", compared to MS Windows. When all effort in the X world had been spent on a common GUI and toolkit, we would not have had a problem now. Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+