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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!167.152.149.11!news.emi.com!news.NH.Destek.Net!mozart.jlc.net!jtn From: jtn@frodo.mc.com (Jason T. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X-windows quality Date: 22 Jan 1997 14:46:11 GMT Organization: JLC-net, Milford NH Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5c597j$kca@mozart.jlc.net> References: <5c13tv$9be@news.istar.ca> <5c1d00$7r3@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> <5c3i70$mtn@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: jtn@mc.com NNTP-Posting-Host: frodo.mc.com X-Wintrmute: boo X-EBOAI: yes X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.0.0 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34352 On 21 Jan 1997 23:07:12 GMT, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> scribbled: >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. :-) It may be ugly, but it's a good starting point (at the very least) for desktop standardization.. >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. Really? I find a lot of relative "newbies" copy my desktop settings for fvwm2, though they eventually change things around after they gain more information about the rc file :) -- Jason T. Nelson <jtn@mc.com> Mercury Computer Systems, Inc Chelmsford, MA PGP fingerprint = C5 13 96 4F 7C 75 7E 4B AB 0A A4 CE AA 4C 43 72 disclaimer: I speak for no one but myself.