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SubjectRe: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux -LONG
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

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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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