Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Jan 1998 22:18:02 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux -LONG |
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On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Alan Cox writes: > >> No. In many cases (menus, dialog boxes, ...) it is really > >> ineffective to transfer data by lines as X do it. > > > > X is meant to provide services not policy. Thats very important. > > People _want_ policy. (they complain "every window works different") > > >> MS-Windows do it this way. And I think that their way is > >> better than X. (Sad to say). > > > > MSWin isnt a networked windowing system > > That does not matter. You can ship the Windows API over the net, > as many 3rd party products do. You could ship MFC over the net.
<ironic> Yeah, like WinCenter... </ironic>
> On the net, bandwidth matters. It is rather odd that X is > less efficient than Windows.
Now you make me laugh! Sometimes I use WinCenter (e.g. if someone sends me a very very very \ldots very important document in M$-WORD format that I can't simply drop in /dev/null), and I really don't have the impression that Windows is more efficient than plain X.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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