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- From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Both, Motif and Openwin on a SPARC 2 ?
- Message-ID: <SIMON.93Jan26120433@liasg2.epfl.ch>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:04:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.032501.29270@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- <1jvrheINN52o@early-bird.think.com> <C1FCJ1.5Iz@siemens.com>
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- In-reply-to: aad@siemens.com's message of 25 Jan 93 19:23:24 GMT
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- In article <C1FCJ1.5Iz@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri)
- writes:
-
- [...] IMHO, a product is broken if it requires that a window
- manager be running at all.
-
- Sun's XView clients seem to be consistent offenders. The ones that
- I've seen lack a quit button.
-
- Why do you think this is a problem? Purists who don't run a window
- manager should terminate their applications using "kill" or Control-C.
-
- XView applications all participate in the WM_DELETE_WINDOW protocol,
- so I can quit them by sending them a "delete" message, for example by
- typing "Hyper-C" to my window manager (tvtwm).
-
- I consider quit buttons a waste of space. :-)
- --
- Simon.
-