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- From: mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us (Everett M. Greene)
- Subject: Re: More on MUI (Was: Miami - a new TCP/IP stack for Internet access)
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- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:08:20 GMT
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- In article <4l7ec0$7mg@daily-planet.execpc.com> innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen) writes:
- >
- > In article <9604180841.AA001o8@innov.demon.co.uk> Innovision Concepts Limited
- <Keith@innov.demon.co.uk> writes:
- [snip]
- > > Probably not, but it does mean that people will not be FORCED to install the
- > > bloated MUI on their machines just to use Miami. If it is just for such a
- > > small part of the program, then why inflict MUIupon us in the first place?
- > > No reason at all.
- > Nobody will be *forced* to install MUI on their machine. If you don't want
- > it, you don't run Miami. Simple as that.
- > You say there's no reason to use MUI for the GUI, but have you ever written
- > your own GUI code? It's possible to have a complex GUI working within the
- > space of an hour, when using MUI. That frees the programmer to work on the
- > more important stuff. There's your reason.
-
- And it's possible to produce a moderately complex GUI in 15 minutes
- using GadToolsBox and other such tools.
-
- I believe the issue is imposing MUI on reluctant individuals for
- something which is used once when configuring Miami. What can be
- so exotic about a one-shot configuration operation that it needs
- a complex GUI support system?
-
- There is also the argument about what the potential customers
- really want -- functionality or a pretty GUI? In a case such as
- Miami, I couldn't care less (within reason) about the appearance
- of the one-time configuration operations.
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