Posted-Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:13:47 -0600
Message-Id:	<199703191413.IAA23936@smartsun.smartnet.net>
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:17:11 -0600
From:	"Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
Reply-To:	"Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Win95-style GUI
Mime-Version:	1.0

I personally like the Windows 95 GUI far better than
any of the previous ones I have used (Windows 3.1x,
Macintosh, several X-Windows wm's, SunView).  This
is because I find that more features that I want
are already implemented, and that the ones I want
that are not already there are easy to implement.
X-Windows is marvelous, but getting an X wm to
be really efficient for my use just takes far
too much time.  Myself, I like file trees, because
I deal with files an awful lot, and cutting/pasting
files in 95 is faster and easier than anything
else I've used for files -- particularly across
a network.  There's also the system configuration
done in GUI, the Network Neighborhood (for a LAN
or WAN, it's precious; for standalone I turn it
off with TweakUI), very easily set-up desktop
icons, a menu for starting apps I can call up with
one keystroke, etc.  The one thing I might want
that I don't have is a multiple screen view
window manager, and those are available, I hear.

Jonathan E. Brickman   River City Computing, Inc.  (913) 232-6663
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~rivercity     brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com
This is life.  Take it by the whip.

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