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- From: gary@canit.se (Oskar Sundberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 17:32:39 GMT
- Organization: CanIt Public Access, Stockholm
- Message-ID: <1574.17T1122T1821@canit.se>
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- >> 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.
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- >I just started the new demo of ibrowse, and without changeing a damn
- >thing it load 16 library like constructs.
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- >(muimaster.library muigfx.library muilowlevel.library Virtgroup.mui
- >Floattext.mui muirexx.library muiscreen.library Scrollgroup.mui
- >muiwinborder.class Gauge.mui Popasl.mui Poppen.mui Pendisplay.mui
- >Listtree.mcc Busy.mcc)
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- All of these nice things. :) I would miss every feature you listed there, what
- ones do you think MUI shouldn't have anymore?
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- >Sure most of them may not be that big, but it adds up and each incurs
- >more overhead.
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- >> Yeah, but standard gadtools is _ugly_
- >Naa, not really.
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- It is, needs patches to look nice on a 1x1 screen, really.
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- >> - and it's a fact that a nice GUI sells.
- >Oh? Where from? I thought people bought computers to run programs.
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- They do, but people don't always buy the best thing, a lot of (stupid, we
- might say) people just buy software for the surface, not for what's
- behind it, take W95 as an example.
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- Compare what a standard A4000 OS3.1 looks like to one of the standard W95
- setups for an average (oh well, stupid) customer in a computer store.
-
- --
- 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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