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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
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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 :)

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Jason T. Nelson                                        <jtn@mc.com>
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc                        Chelmsford, MA
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disclaimer: I speak for no one but myself.