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- From: jfritz@ptolemy1.rdrc.rpi.edu (Joe Fritz)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <1992Nov6.113324.6348@global.hacktic.nl> <BxEAsz.35w@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Nov11.223818.323@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:02:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.223818.323@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
- >
- >Because the application programmer made his choice, which, alas, is probably
- >not my choice. Have you ever worked with X? If I for instance don't like the
- >Motif window manager and I switch to the OPEN LOOK window manager. That makes
- >that makes several things look different on the screen. But everything the
- >application displays remains exactly the same. In fact, the only things to
- >change would be the background, the system menus and the window borders. Sure
- >choice has it's advantages, but it sure also has it's disadvantages.
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-
- IMHO freedom never is a disadvantage, and users should have the
- freedom to choose their UI. Ideally, there should be a generic UI
- library, which is used by all applications, and is customizable by the
- user. This would contain the code to handle all the widgets that are
- commopnly used. An application would ship any the code for any
- non-standard widgets it needs, but the user could should still be able
- to modify them.
-
- However, being more realistic. It seems to me that standard UI's are
- a bad idea, since they lock both users and application programmers
- into a particular paradrim. Instead, the application programmers
- should have the freedom to provide whatever UI they wish, and the
- users will use the product that they, and not some standards committee
- like best.
- --
-
- -joe (jfritz@rdrc.rpi.edu)
-