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- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 14:19 BST-1
- From: ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ofir Gal)
- Subject: IMPORTANT
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.785444@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Precedence: bulk
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- Hi All,
-
- I feel the discussion here has been sidetracked by personality clashes and
- far reaching ideas.
-
- Let me remind you that the purpose of the gem-list is to document and
- establish the way GEM applications behave. Not to change everything. Point
- to focus is out of the question, so is popping a menu on background
- windows. Why? Because no application implements these, and even if one or
- two do, this is not a standard behaviour.
-
- The gem-list should provide a style guide that is fairly easy to follow.
- Otherwise it will not be supported. You can argue the benefits of
- point-to-focus as much as you like. The fact remains that very few apps
- will support this idea and as a result, any other recommendations we make
- will be disregarded.
-
- Next item for discussion is the app-defs file, which was andre@cix idea. I
- therefore asked him to manage the discussion, by trying to put forward a
- proposal that incorporates some of the ideas put forward here. Once he
- done that we will be able to discuss the various points and take a vote.
-
- The key point to remember is that any ideas we put forward should be so
- adreeable and easy to implement that everyone else will accept and follow.
- If however, people continue to put forward radical ideas that are unlikely
- to be supported by developers outside the gem-list, I see little point of
- continuing the discussion.
-
- This message is aimed at everyone here, but especially at Ken and Dan
- Hollis who, for some reason, want everyone to drop everything they've done
- so far, and conform to their idea of a GEM GUI. No Thanks.
-
- Bye,
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- Ofir ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk
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