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- From: pratten@csd.uwo.ca (A Warren Pratten)
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:19:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.001949.11297@julian.uwo.ca>
- Keywords: X11 windows Linux packaging
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- In article <daum.721861107@ee.ualberta.ca> daum@ee.ualberta.ca (Tanya Louise Daum) writes:
- >I was reading this morning in a local computer paper about NeXT software and
- >how the NeXT is the only computer with "a consistent and user friendly" user
- >interface across almost all applications excluding the Macintosh.
- >
- >This got me thinking about the innadequacy of raw X windows and the
- >applications already built. Most applications aren't terribly user
- >friendly, and certainly aren't consistent. I know there are packaged
- >environments for X out there that have this sort of internal consistency and
- >user friendliness (Interviews struck me as kind of nice) but they have not
- >caught on, etc.
- >
-
- I realize this type of thinking is very "old-fashion" but....
- Some people (like me) find "consistent and user friendly" interfaces such as
- those presented by NeXT and MacIntosh very annoying. Personally I like
- X's user-unfriendlyness. When I work I want to pull up the application or
- window and get at it. I hate dragging this thing over top of that icon and
- pulling down those menu bars.
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- A Warren Pratten
- Email: Pratten@csd.uwo.ca
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