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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X-windows quality
Date: 21 Jan 1997 23:07:12 GMT
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jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) wrote:

> 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, ...

As much as i agree on the Xaw appearance (though this has never
intended to be an X11 toolkit, but only proof of concept), i dare to
disagree regarding the pleasentness of CDE.  I simply find its look
very, very ugly. :-)

But all of this is a matter of taste.  The good thing with X11 is that
there's much room for personalization.  I have yet to see two desktops
of daily X11 users that look similar.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)