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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 12 Feb 96 11:18:39 +0500
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- On or about 09-Feb-96 16:28:19 Peter Bornhall typed the following words about
- "MUI 3.2". My reply is thus...
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- PB> In a message dated 07 Feb 96, jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au wrote to All:
-
- jcu>> I successfully removed MUI 2.3's dependence on the MUI: assign simply
- jcu>> by removing references to patterns and images relative to it. Why on
- jcu>> earth would you have to manually edit the prefs file?
-
- PB> Congratulations then. I *really* tried, but to no avail. And since I
- ha
- PB> better things to do than to arm-wrestle with crap like MUI, I simply edit
- PB> by hand. Problem solved.
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- PB> >> Why not? That's what those drawers are there for! And a power-user
- c
- PB> >> always prevent 3rd-party libs from clogging up the system libs for
- PB> >> example. And the MUI imagery, wouldn't that fit perfectly in
- PB> >> SYS:Classes/Images or something similar?
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- 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.
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- PB> Seems typical that Stefan would change this then, it seems like he can't
-
- PB> his foot down and say; "This is it, take it or leave it". For someone as
- PB> well-versed in the Amiga, it strikes me odd that Stefan would do such a t
- PB> SIMPLY based on what the users think.
-
- PB> I mean, we don't want it all in one directory ß la Windows, but on the
- ot
- PB> hand, we don't want system files scattered in heaps of drawers either, do
- PB> I don't, that's for sure.
-
- Well I for one like to keep my SYS: (boot) partition clean. I have a 25meg
- boot partition that is almost virgin OS. There is almost nothing in there that
- didn't get there by installing the OS. I have installed every version of the
- OS from 1.2 to 3.1 and having a very clean boot partition has made upgrading
- over the years much easier IMHO.
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