From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 30 11: 5:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F8E37B424 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4481; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:11:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3B15365E.7140D076@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:05:18 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: ExBSD References: <014301c0e249$debd93f0$0300a8c0@oracle> <4.3.2.7.2.20010523093020.017d3fb8@mail.threespace.com> <8072844.990964800@[192.168.1.60]> <3B14CED8.3CE0D7FB@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > Maybe it not "fair" that Windows has this advantage: but > there is an easy answer: enforce the Windows Style Guide, > and the use of particular windows managers (e.g. fvwm95, > as an obvious choice) and particular widget sets in new > UNIX programs. Doing that would mean that all that > prepaid training would be immediately transferrable to > UNIX, as well. That's half the point of the desktop environments. CDE then KDE then GNOME (not to slight any that I failed to mention). Running tcl/tk apps next to a KDE app next to a Xt app with custom widgets doesn't bother me at all. But it does bother a lot of people. Even an app with a different color scheme can confuse some people. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message