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- From: U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Internet bundle
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 19:54:19 MET
- Organization: K.U. Nijmegen
- Message-ID: <1772A117EES86.U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl>
- References: <edmundv.4b6n@grafix.xs4all.nl> <4fda8p$j1b@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <4ff86o$3do@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au> <AD438BB29668252AC5@ajdean.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <AD438BB29668252AC5@ajdean.demon.co.uk>
- andy@ajdean.demon.co.uk (Andy Dean) writes:
-
- >
- >In article <4ff86o$3do@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au>,
- >aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson) wrote:
- >
- >>Bullmanure... MUI makes programming a TONNE easier... instead of
- >>wasting time for weeks trying to use voodo magic to use gadtools.library
- >>for everything, I can code a good and powerful user interface in 2 days.
- >>MUI is certainly "mean". The lean bit is rather questionable, but i am
- >>willing to pay that price for a powerful GUI system.
- >
- >If Amiga Technologies are to attract new developers to the Amiga, which
- >is essential if the Amiga is to survive, AT must make it as easy as
- >possible for developers to write software for the machine. A new
- >developer is not going to be tempted to write a new program (or port
- >from another platform) if they only have GadTools to create their
- >GUI.
-
- Yes, but...
-
- The Amiga in it's current form has little left going for it, unless you
- count the ability to drag screens, which is only nice to impress the
- neighbours IMO.
-
- The one thing that the Amiga has that no other OS has is it's leanness.
- MUI is about, what, 2 times the size of the entire OS?
-
- It's of course nice to attract developers, but if that means scaring away
- half of all users, then I am not sure if that's the right thing to do.
-
- BTW, I like the idea behind MUI a lot, and it ties in nicely with the way
- interfaces on the Amiga work: standard, yet configurable. What I don't
- like is it's implementation. I am not sure if it can be done better, AFAIK
- Stefan Stuntz (is that his name?) has worked miracles, but if this is the
- best that can be done then my vote is don't do it.
-
- If it can be done leaner, then by all means, let AT develop (or have
- developed) a gui-builder that'll knock developer's socks off.
-
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