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- In a message dated 06 Feb 96, ebcnklu@ebc.ericsson.se wrote to All:
-
- >> Well, I for one would take BGUI over MUI any day. At least it's not as
- >> bloated as MUI, and it doesn't require YET ANOTHER ASSIGN. What's with
- >> this damn MUI assign? With 2.3 I had to MANUALLY edit the prefs,
- >> otherwise it just asked for MUI: everytime it was started.
-
- eee> Maybe you should have tried out the installer script..?
-
- Look I don't want to insult you, but I was NOT trying to INSTALL it!! I was
- trying to put the images in drawers other than MUI:Whatever/ and so on. BUT,
- that damned prefs program wouldn't release its hold on MUI:. Thus, I had to
- MANUALLY EDIT THE PREFS FILE! Get my point now, <censored>!
-
- >> Hell, since when does a library (for
- >> gods sake) require an entire drawer of its own?
-
- eee> When it is as user configurable and exstensible as MUI..
-
- That's not an excuse.
-
- eee> And.. correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it so that the minimum
- eee> installation of MUI is just the libraries, which can be located in
- eee> libs: as well as MUI:Libs... someone?
-
- Well, since some MUI programs assume that there is a MUI: assign, I had to
- assign it to T: just to get rid of them damn requesters. I haven't tried it
- with MUI 3.x, and I'm not going to. I don't have the time to mess around with
- MUI, I have work to do.
-
- >> OTOH, I sincerely hope that they do NOT use MUI or its descendents in a
- >> future Amiga OS.
-
- eee> Offcourse we don't want MUI included with the OS, since it is an extra
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- eee> layer on top of the system. What we would like is the next AmigaOS GUI
- eee> to look and work something like MUI.
-
- Hey, I'm going to print that one out, and stick it on the wall next to the
- monitor! :) Look, I'm NOT (how many times do I have to say this?) protesting
- against the concept of MUI/BGUI/gtlayout/ClassAct/whatever, but I AM protesting
- against MUI.
-
- >> 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...
-
- eee> The Win95 GUI is ages behind MUI, it is not resizeable, not
- eee> font-sensitive not bla bla.. In short, it sucks equally as much as the
- eee> Win3.1 GUI, just a different look.
-
- Huh? Last time I checked I could resize windows in W95. AND change fonts.
- The sucking part is agreeable on though. :)
-
-
-
- (Police! This is plain and simple theft! :)
-
- eee> /\ _
- eee> /\ \// Kristofer Lund gann@canit.se
- eee> /_ \// -======================================================-
- eee> /_\\//_\ MUI, boldly going where no GUI has gone before!
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Oh? Where is that? Down the drain? ;)
-
-
- /\ _
- /\ \// Peter Bornhall bornhall@karkis.canit.se
- /_ \// -======================================================-
- /_\\//_\ Amiga, boldly going where no computer has gone before!
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