From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 30 18:50:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01973 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:50:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01949 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (kaput@aeiusrG-35.aei.ca [206.186.205.85]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21742; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:50:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35492A36.5A7257B6@aei.ca> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:49:42 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A GUI greyscale interface by default References: <24438.893985203@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I have thinked to that when I look around *moused* and when I read about > > a 1986 (I think) NeXT product: A 21" monitor greyscale with a fuly GUI > > interface. I think it was sold more than 15 000 $! > > > > 10 year after that, Unix have no basic fast GUI interface... > > Well, maybe other Unix, I dont know > > Argh, so DO something about it why don't you! Simply identifying the > lack of an easy-to-setup and use GUI interface in Unix is something > which people have been doing for years and is such an old topic that > it isn't even interesting anymore. What would be far more interesting > would be an actual IMPLEMENTATION of an alternative GUI mechanism > and an explanation of how it wins over X. > > So let us know when you've finished your proof-of-concept > implementation, OK? :-) > > Jordan I will close my mouth, learn C++ and work :-) cya Malartre -- -------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.6 -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message