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- From: sammy@smds.com (Samuel Murphy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX a
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.185120.4095@smds.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:51:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.170637.668@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1992Dec21.161330.16572@news.duc.auburn.edu>
- Reply-To: sammy@ishmael.UUCP (Samuel Murphy)
- Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Dec21.161330.16572@news.duc.auburn.edu> elling@eng.auburn.edu writes:
- >In article 668@lokkur.dexter.mi.us, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
- >>At the LISA conference we had a Sun-Managers BOF. I surveyed the
- >>audience and asked a number of leading questions (hey, it was my BOF :-))
- >
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- >1. What window manager do you use? olwm, olvwm, twm, tvwm, mwm, other.
- ...
- >2. What GUI do your apps use? openlook, motif, or other.
- ...
- >3. If OpenWindows were as fast as X11/R?, would you still hate it?
- ...
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- The questions I'd like to see on a survey goe something like:
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- If you had a useful program that used the Motif widget set would you REFUSE to use it?
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- If you had a useful program that used the Openlook widget set would you REFUSE to use it?
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- If you had a useful program that used the DECwindows widget set would you REFUSE to use it?
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- If you had a useful program that used the Macintosh widget set would you REFUSE to use it?
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- If you had a useful program that used the ________ widget set would you REFUSE to use it?
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- One problem with surveys is designing a valid question set is hard work
- and not often the the desire of the surveyer.
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- Sam Murphy
- sammy@smds.com
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