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- From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
- Subject: Re: Is There an Open Look Xgopher?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.164716.12128@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
- References: <1992Nov15.064138.22008@ra.msstate.edu> <1992Nov15.200600.1420@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov16.130003.4239@cas.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:47:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.130003.4239@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) says:
- : In article <1992Nov15.200600.1420@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
- : :This is not an abstract ideal. There are a half-dozen major X based
- : :UI's, and a lot more minor variants. Do we have one client for each?
- : :The *ENTIRE* idea of X was to have one, unifying protocol. To add
- :
- : Actually, the way _I_ read the X literature from the past 10 yrs or so,
- : and in talking to the X gurus from MIT, etc. during many different
- : conferences, is that while there be one unifying protocol, there would
- : NEVER be one unifying user interface.
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- Indeed, they went to great effort to NOT specify the user interface.
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- If they had particularly wanted a single look and feel they would have
- gone the Mac/SunView route and made look and feel an integral part of
- the protocol.
-
- : MIT continues
- : to resist officially sanctioning the user interaction. They leave that
- : area up to the user community to decide.
-
- It would be nice if we did all agree on a single user interface but, for a
- variety of reasons (some quite silly) that hasn't happened.
-
- : So if we want to use X itself as a model, then gopher users who wish to write
- : a OpenLook, or Motif, or NeXTStep, or Mac, or Windows look and feel interface
- : should go ahead, but not expect the general gopher team to support it. Let
- : the team choose an interface with which they are satisfied and they will
- : support it.
-
- I agree completely.
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