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- In a message dated 03 Feb 96, gary@canit.se wrote to All:
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- >> BTW; What features are you missing? The configurability I guess, since
- >> you wanted orange apps with green buttons...:)
-
- gcs> Again, that's just a silly way of saying it. The configurability is a
- gcs> plus, and no sane man uses it to create orange windows with green
- gcs> buttons.
-
- Thank god for that, you really had me worried there...:) No, sorry about
- that. But what features BESIDES the configurability ARE you missing then?
-
- >> 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?!
-
- gcs> Heh. The libraries loaded are for the features of MUI you want, if you
- gcs> just use the standard settings and don't change anything (and you
- gcs> didn't like configurability, right?) you should find that the number
- gcs> of libraries opened (and more importantly, the size of these libraries)
- gcs> are not that big.
-
- Oh? How do you explain that this applies to even the unregistered version
- then? And it's not exactly like I can decide which features a program uses,
- now can I? Aw, what the heck, I don't really care, I avoid MUI programs as
- much as possible.
-
- gcs>>> This is just plain silly. MUI has more features, yes, but comparing
- gcs>>> it to something bloated is stupid. MUI is highly optimised in both
- gcs>>> memory (check out the pools in 3.2) and speed. Using BGUI is just
- gcs>>> stupid.
- >> Oh, so BGUI is bloated now, is it? Strikes me funny that you would say
- >> that, comparing MUI and BGUI...:-D
-
- gcs> No, W95 is bloated, I don't know about BGUI.
-
- Ah, I see. Ok, that we can agree on. :)
-
- >> 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.
-
- gcs> Yeah, but standard gadtools is _ugly_ - and it's a fact that a nice
- gcs> GUI sells. Probably a lot of people switched from Win3.1 to Win95 just
- gcs> because of the GUI changes. "Press Start"... ;)
-
- As long as it performs, I don't really care how it looks. Nice looks are a
- plus, of course, but if it in any way hinders the use of the program, it's not
- for me. True, many switched to W95 because of nice looks, and as far as I
- know, a big portion of them now regrets it. Hype from MS, that's what sold
- W95.
-
- gcs> And, oh, why should I switch to the PC?
-
- I think you'll find the GUI-look configurability VERY appealing.
-
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- /\ \// Peter Bornhall bornhall@karkis.canit.se
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