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" Reply-To: "Jonathan E. Brickman" To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Win95-style GUI Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.