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- From: jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 12 Feb 96 01:10:20 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- bornhall@karkis.canit.se (Peter Bornhall) writes:
-
- > jcu> It used to. People complained about their normal public directories
- > jcu> getting clogged, and having the libraries scattered all over the
- > jcu> place. A power user should have no difficulty moving them there if
- > jcu> they want to.
-
- > Seems typical that Stefan would change this then, it seems like he can't put
- >his foot down and say; "This is it, take it or leave it". For someone as
- >well-versed in the Amiga, it strikes me odd that Stefan would do such a thing
- >SIMPLY based on what the users think.
-
- Hardly. He did it because it's a lot more sensible and makes it far
- easier to update or move MUI. SAS/C is another good example of a
- program that uses MUI's approach (or, probably more correctly, MUI
- uses SAS/C's approach) to good effect.
-
- You can very easily change it to the other system if you wish. It's
- not so easy to change from the other system to the current one,
- especially for the novice user. That alone suggests which one should
- be default.
-
- > I mean, we don't want it all in one directory a la Windows, but on the other
- >hand, we don't want system files scattered in heaps of drawers either, do we?
- >I don't, that's for sure.
-
- I don't mind if those "heaps of drawers" (actually, the required files
- are all in MUI:Libs, but never mind) are in the one place and easy to
- move. I, for one, get extremely annoyed going through my LIBS: and
- SYS:Classes directories trying to work out just which libs are being
- used by what, and which I don't need anymore. Half the libraries in
- there probably aren't actually used any more by any program on my
- system, but I can't easily check that.
-
- > /\ \// Peter Bornhall bornhall@karkis.canit.se
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