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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Subject: Re: X: User simplicity vs code complexity
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.234715.4877@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
- References: <TPAQUETTE.92Jul23134924@gumby.ita.lgc.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 23:47:15 GMT
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- In article <TPAQUETTE.92Jul23134924@gumby.ita.lgc.com>, tpaquette@ita.lgc.com (Trevor Paquette) writes:
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- > I came up with "X is the perfect example of User simplicity is
- > directly proportional to code complexity." Do you agree/disagree
- > with this statement and why?
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- Disagree. X is not the perfect anything, as far as I've yet seen.
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- Also, it's not clear whether "user" is the application programmer or
- the application user.
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- > There are many calls that do basically the same thing (XAllocColor vs
- > XAllocColorCells).
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- Two enlightening snippets from the Xlib document:
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- ----
- To allocate a read-only color cell, use XAllocColor.
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- To allocate read/write color cell and color plane combinations
- for a PseudoColor model, use XAllocColorCells.
- ----
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- Do you still think they do basically the same thing?
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
-