To:	brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com
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From:	"-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date:	Sat, 22 Mar 97 16:58:38 +0300
Subject:	Re: Win95-style GUI
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nuqneH,

> 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
> X-Mailer: Jonathan E. Brickman's registered AK-Mail 2.11b [eng]
>
> 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).

What do you think about fvwm95? i hate it but you should like it ;)

> 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.

It is *flexible*. We have about 20 lose-doze-95 machines in our office -
and a bit less than ten Unices. There is no Unix desktop that looks like
another one - and no MustDie'95 desktop that really differs from another one.

I prefer OpenLook - just play a bit with configuration files and it looks
great!

And about Sux'95.. it is really terrible that window manager does not appear
as a separate process.. when i try to click on [X] button to kill the task -
and i can't just because as soon as i have that window active - cursor
changes to something that indicate that task is busy! I DO NOT CARE I JUST
WANT TO KILL IT! Really annoying.

>  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.

I've got a terrible time i was forced to unpack and write to disk some files
on machine that had no command-line unzip - winzip only. What a shit.
And for X - i do nearly everything from shell windows. I even do not run
any guish filemanagers at all.

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