From: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam) Subject: Re: Do you want to see linux replace MSW? Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 13:07:52 GMT
Peter Mutsaers (muts@muts.hacktic.nl) wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1993 03:06:54 GMT, lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam) said:
> SL> I think we need much more than good defaults. Programs using Xaw don't
> SL> look very good, Xaw3d is slightly better but doesn't look as nics as
> SL> Windows, Motif is good but it's not free. Besides, we need a decent
> SL> Desktop manager. xdtm is good, but IMHO, not very easy to use. The
> SL> biggest problem is that most X programs don't come with icons, but
> SL> most Windows apps do, and they are nice color icons too...
> Xaw programs look simple, but clear. Same goes for icons. All these
> things that look so nice (or less, loke open look) make your work not
> more effiecient, on the contrary.
> Why would you need an icon with a colorful picture representing a
> spreadsheet, why not have a a number of boxes (like twm's iconmanager)
> with the name of the application in it ("spreadsheet"). Often the
> pictures are hardly recognizable, and they take up so much room on
> your screen, which is always too small.
I didn't mention anything about Xaw programs are hard to use, did I? In
fact, I find that twm is a lot easier to use than MS Windows and mwm.
What I mean is that if we can have a GUI that is both easy to use and
nice looking, it will sure attract more people to Linux. To make X
to be such a thing, there is still much work to do.
Regards,
Savio Lam.