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- From: gary@canit.se (Oskar Sundberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 23:17:45 GMT
- Organization: CanIt Public Access, Stockholm
- Message-ID: <3106.16T49T2831@canit.se>
- References: <31140cdd@karkis.canit.se>
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- gcs>> BGUI sucks completely compared to MUI. First, it's slower, and does
- gcs>> not nearly have all the nice features MUI has.
-
- > In your opinion, of course. And what kind of a crap machine do you have if
- >you feel BGUI is slow? (Now, have we ever heard that one before? Just
- >replace BGUI with MUI.)
-
- IMHO, yes, BGUI is slower than MUI.
-
- > BTW; What features are you missing? The configurability I guess, since you
- >wanted orange apps with green buttons...:)
-
- Again, that's just a silly way of saying it. The configurability is a plus,
- and no sane man uses it to create orange windows with green buttons.
-
- gcs>> If you have a new version of cybergraphics, this should be fixed. If I
- gcs>> remember correctly, BGUI needs a separately loaded BGUI library for
- gcs>> each loaded application, that's not a very nice thing. Not if you're
- gcs>> on the net with a bunch of net clients loaded.
-
- > Not so. BGUI is loaded once, as libraries usually are. OTOH, you can't
- > share
- >the lib base between tasks (i.e. open it again if your program spawns a new
- >task), but that should provide no problems.
-
- > Compare that to MUI's 10+ libraries and nearly 500k of bloat. For god's
- > sake,
- >just starting the MUI prefs program bumps the open libraries count by 16!
- >And just by browsing around in it, a further 7 libs are opened! How's THAT
- >for bloat, huh?!
-
- Heh. The libraries loaded are for the features of MUI you want, if you just
- use the standard settings and don't change anything (and you didn't like
- configurability, right?) you should find that the number of libraries opened
- (and more importantly, the size of these libraries) are not that big.
-
- > >> And if you really want orange GUI's with green buttons, you apparently
- > >> have such lousy taste that you should convert to a PC with Windows 95.
- > >> W95 is the MUI (Microsoft User Interface) for the PC you know...
-
- gcs>> This is just plain silly. MUI has more features, yes, but comparing it
- gcs>> to something bloated is stupid. MUI is highly optimised in both memory
- gcs>> (check out the pools in 3.2) and speed. Using BGUI is just stupid.
-
- > Oh, so BGUI is bloated now, is it? Strikes me funny that you would say
- > that,
- >comparing MUI and BGUI...:-D
-
- No, W95 is bloated, I don't know about BGUI.
-
- gcs>> Yes, MUI is slower than standard gadtools, but then again, just simply
- gcs>> having one pixel non-shaded frames for buttons is even faster, isn't
- gcs>> it? Nice features have a price, and the standard gadtools gui sucks
- gcs>> compared to what's on the other platforms today.
-
- > Apparently, you should've switched to the PC a loooong time ago. I'm not
- >staring at how "nice" a GUI looks all day. I do what I want/need to do, and
- >then it's done.
-
- Yeah, but standard gadtools is _ugly_ - and it's a fact that a nice GUI sells.
- Probably a lot of people switched from Win3.1 to Win95 just because of the GUI
- changes. "Press Start"... ;)
-
- And, oh, why should I switch to the PC?
-
- --
- Oskar Gary Sundberg / gary@canit.se / P-Gary / http://www.canit.se/~gary
- ToH, MusiHlp & WebGfx development / Please don't pull my string, girl...
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