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- From: andy@ajdean.demon.co.uk (Andy Dean)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Internet bundle
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:04:02 +0000
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- In article <4ff86o$3do@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au>,
- aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (George Sanderson) wrote:
-
- >umverou0@cc.umanitoba.ca (Michael Veroukis) writes:
- >
- >:>Is it really that difficult to understand that there are people who don't like
- >:>MUI?
- >
- >: I agree with you. There are some who would rather have something
- >:that's lean and mean, then something that just looks pretty. The only
- >:thing that's really good about MUI is it makes really nifty screen shots,
- >:but sucks otherwise. If all you care about is looks, MUI is for you.
- >:Otherwise, look elsewhere.
- >
- >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.
-
- The modern GUI should support tabbed groups, font sensitivity,
- localisation, drag and drop etc... and to do this with GadTools would
- simply take too much of the development time away from writing/porting
- the application itself. Now, I'd personally like to see major applications
- coming to the Amiga using something like MUI, rather than no major
- applications because GadTools remains the only option.
-
- The "MUI sucks" brigade should also take note that the Amiga community
- should be preparing for the future, not the present. New Amigas will
- inevitably be faster (25MHz 68LC040 please, AT) so the speed difference
- between GadTools and MUI will insignificant, but the difference in
- quality of applications will be immense. The sooner AT decides on
- a new GUI standard, the sooner developers can get on with creating the
- new applications.
-
-
- --
- Andy Dean, co-author of ImageStudio and TextureStudio for the Amiga
- Email: andy@ajdean.demon.co.uk WWW: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~adean/
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