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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today &
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.174139.17302@twg.com>
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- Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:41:37 GMT
- Lines: 136
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- exudnw@exu.ericsson.se (Dave Williams) writes:
- > Motif is for those who miss Microsoft Windows now that they're "forced"
- > to use UNIX.
-
- I disagree mightily.
-
- I don't use MS-Windows even though there's plenty of it around me.
- I have no desire to be straightjacketed to that OS & think it's
- look is pretty silly. I've never used that OS as the `MS-DOS Just Say
- No' bumper sticker on my car hopefully attests. I have been using
- X since X10 days (and was upset when learning that X11 didn't support
- the active icon stuff ...)
-
- HOWEVER.. mwm is a very different story. It's look is much nicer than
- MS-Windows is, even though it's basically the same thing.
-
- I like mwm because
-
- - You can resize windows from any edge or corner. Unlike most other window
- managers. twm has mac-itis in that you can only resize from the upper
- right corner. olwm only allows resizes from corners. gwm doesn't care ;-)
-
- - Killing a window is a pretty simple operation. With twm out of the box
- this isn't easy, you must do some configuration. olwm makes you choose
- something off a menu; for some reason I don't like having to use BTN-3
- to bring up menus.
-
- - Dialogs created the Motif way group properly with their parent window
- and make sure they stay above the parent window. Thus dialogs are much
- less likely to be missed (accidently covered), and the fact that the
- dialog is there really stands out.
-
- What am I using right now? Well, blush, piewm. I wanted to experience
- a virtual root for awhile. And Don made pie menus seem like such a nifty
- idea that it tipped the scales towards setting it up.
-
- I really like this virtual root stuff but miss the niceties in mwm.
- If these were in mwm I'd be in 7th heaven!
-
-
- Now... someone may pop up and give a way to configure twm such that
- with some funky key & button combination resizes can be accomplished
- from anywhere in a window.
-
- After a couple of years writing user interfaces I'm firmly convinced
- that all controls must be visible. Maybe not immediately visible, but
- somehow visible. This doesn't mean there can't be short cuts for some
- common actions. Instead, making sure controls are visible means easier
- use and learning of a system.
-
- uwm was very very very bad in that matter since it had NO visible controls.
-
- <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
- <-
- <- "That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them."
- <- Karen Hargrove of Microsoft quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial.
-
-
- #define ms5_width 70
- #define ms5_height 100
- static char ms5_bits[] = {
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-