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- From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: XView
- Message-ID: <13473@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 11:51:20 GMT
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- In <epwcil5@openlook.Unify.Com> fgreco@cfdev1026.shearson.com (Frank Greco) writes:
-
- > Someone from Sun told me that they've noticed that there
- > are not too many people posting to the Xview-ish net groups
- > in comparison to the Xt group which they believe
- > indicates a lack of interest in Xview. Maybe it belies
- > the fact that Xview is so easy, folks do not need to ask
- > that many questions?
-
- Well if that's how they measure interest I had better post here to let
- them know what I think of xview. Now I'm not a professional application
- developer (I do research) but of all the free toolkits around I have
- found Xview to be the easiest to understand and use. Whenever people
- ask me what to use for student projects I recommend Xview and although
- I've tried other things (even MS windows :-() Xview remains my firm
- favourite.
-
- I just got a new PC and installed Linux and now I'm dead chuffed to
- have Xview at home so I can use it there too. What more could I want?
- If Sun drop Xview and don't offer something better then I expect a lot
- of people will get very disillusioned. Perhaps Xview will turn into a
- NET supported package? That would keep people like me happy, but I
- don't know how well it would go down in a professional application
- development environment.
-
- Mark.
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- Mark Dobie M.R.Dobie@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
- University of Southampton M.R.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (The World)
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