From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 16:38:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA00740 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA00723 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:38:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id BAA02617 ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:37:56 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id BAA13464 ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:37:55 +0100 Received: (uucp@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.fr.net (8.6.11/fasterix-941011) with UUCP id WAA01837; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:42:01 +0100 Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.frmug.fr.net (8.7.3/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id WAA00398; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:37:43 +0100 (MET) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199602282137.WAA00398@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Subject: Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:37:42 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Feb 27, 96 09:14:17 am X-rene: Tu dois pas les avoir perdues, normalement. X-wing-fighter: et puis X-men, X-open, X-ta-mere... X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber écrit / writes: > I think a large factor in the dismal state of GUIs on unix is the simple > fact that many unix users will put up with the most horrendous GUI without > complaint. I might go so far as to say they wouldn't know a good GUI if > it came up and bit them. Since a good UI is considerably harder to > develop than a bad one, why invest in a good one if the users won't even > notice? This is some kind of protection against Windrool-type users :-) Seriously, a nice-looking (let alone *unified*) GUI would make users want to use Unix a bit more (or maybe feel less repelled by it). The positive side-effect is that it would be easier to convince developers to port apps to FreeBSD (and other Unices). -- Phil -- - [ regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net / +48.8N+2.3E / +33 1 4507 9391 / Sol 3 ] - - [ regnauld@freenix.fr / FreeBSD 2.x / ] - "Le schtroumpf est à l'homme ce que le bleu est au billard" - F.Berjon