Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:05:30 +0000 (/etc/localtime) From: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: jmallett@xMach.org, dscheidt@tumbolia.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105271154420.148-100000@molly.telia.com> In-Reply-To: <20010526152631Z.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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On Sat, 26 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Apple couldn't have done Aqua as a plain old X window manager. Well, they > > Right - that's something I left out of my previous message. To have > suggested that Apple could have accomplished their goals by simply > bolting a new look-and-feel on top of X was just ludicrous (sorry). Don't apologise, I don't have a clue about the technical parts of OSX so I don't mind being corrected. > They're trying to make an OS that your grandmother could use, with > a good printing model and lots of API support for mainstream apps. > X with a new window manager that most certainly is not. They > were right to start from scratch. Then how much will OSX then benifit the Unix community as a whole? I understand that parts of the Unix model are slightly archaic, but isn't gradual change a la KDE better than just throwing the standards aside and rolling your own? Both QT and GTK allow for good component-based programming similar to the MFC, wouldn't an expansion of the stuff previously written have benefitted both Apple and the rest of the Unix industry? Is there a way to "re-marry" the two? -Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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