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- From: lucretia@spots.ab.ca (JR Friesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: More on MUI (Was: Miami - a new TCP/IP stack for Internet access)
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 18:25:51 GMT
- Organization: i*internet inc.
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- Everett M. Greene (mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us) wrote:
- : And it's possible to produce a moderately complex GUI in 15 minutes
- : using GadToolsBox and other such tools.
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- Agreed.
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- : I believe the issue is imposing MUI on reluctant individuals for
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- You always have a shell. I'm sure that works as well.
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- : 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?
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- Maybe it's simply a choice.
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- : 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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- Exactly, so what's your point? You can live with a MUI
- config app? Hurray!
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- Take care,
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- James Friesen |who? lucretia@spots.ab.ca
- Lucretia Enterprises |web? http://www.spots.ab.ca/~lucretia
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