| From: | james_jacobs |
| Date: | 10 Jan 2000 at 05:44:03 |
| Subject: | MUI dead? |
From: james_jacobs@altavista.net
I must confess I am not at all sad to see the end of MUI.
In my opinion it was a bloated, inefficient, slow waste of system resources and offered hardly any worthwhile functionality. Also it helped to split the Amiga community into several camps, each running their own preferred GUI, and has also forced Amigans to live with MUI even if they hate it, just so they can run certain programs.
Having multiple incompatible GUIs seems silly to me. I see nothing wrong with the standard gadgets, they are fast, easy and functional. MUI certainly is not easier to program, so what is the advantage then? If people want to change the look of the gadgets all they need to do is to patch GadTools, not throw out that whole subsystem...
I am glad H&P resisted the pressure to include MUI in OS3.5. Once it was an official part of the OS, it would be there forevermore and would have to be supported.
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