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- From: gary@canit.se (Oskar Sundberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 22:51:34 GMT
- Organization: CanIt Public Access, Stockholm
- Message-ID: <2977.16T1418T25@canit.se>
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- 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?
-
- Compared to standard gadtools? A _lot_. :) Now let me see, just the non-
- programming stuff, then. ;) The GUI configuration is great, no need for silly
- patches like urouhack/sysihack to get 1x1 gadget frames, the iconification,
- that all the window positions are remembered if I want them to, the nice
- sliders with the numeric info in the knob, the listviews with multiple
- entries, the very nice keyboard control & gadget cycling, the listtree and
- busy classes are very nice too, the XEN buttons are nice, the smooth scrolling
- listviews are cool and so are the drag and drop objects.
-
- Oh well, I could go on for a long time here. :)
-
- 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.
-
- No, not really, but some libraries do not get loaded if you don't have lots of
- fancy settings on. This was an improvement in MUI3, before it was just one big
- library, and then everybody complained on the size of that one.
-
- gcs>> No, W95 is bloated, I don't know about BGUI.
-
- > Ah, I see. Ok, that we can agree on. :)
-
- Nice. :)
-
- 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.
-
- You might not, but you can't debate that it sells. Compare the standard W95
- look with the standard AmigaOS WB, ugly buttons, Topaz-8 as standard, ugly 4
- colour icons. Sure, most of those things can be improved with patches, etc,
- but we still need a good and "cute" system as standard.
-
- gcs>> And, oh, why should I switch to the PC?
-
- > I think you'll find the GUI-look configurability VERY appealing.
-
- No, MUI wins over the PC. :)
-
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- 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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