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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!cdc2.cdc.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X-windows quality Date: 21 Jan 1997 03:25:52 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 23 Sender: jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Message-ID: <5c1d00$7r3@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <5c13tv$9be@news.istar.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 To: firesign@istar.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34339 In article <5c13tv$9be@news.istar.ca>, firesign <firesign@istar.ca> writes: > display, and it is setup for a nice little S3 card. So far, I'm > completely non-plussed by the graphic quality of X. I know it does > colour, but the whole thing looks so chunky, almost like an old PC > running ega. Maybe I just need to be weaned of 95/NT/NeXT type stuff, > but I expected a better looking interface. > > Am I completely blind ? please educate me... No, you are not blind. The free X toolkits were obviously designed by people without an artistic (visually speaking) bone in their body. Motif/CDE is more aesthetically pleasing, but like most other X toolkits and applications that use them, a display resolution resolution of *at least* 1024x768 is assumed. MS-Windows software typically makes much better use of pixel area out of necessity; many people still run on 800x600 or less. That said with careful tweaking and tuning of X resources, you can get Motif to use space more efficiently, but it is a pain to figure out how. -john