From: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
Message-Id: <199703242309.JAA29222@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Win95-style GUI
To: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru (-= ArkanoiD =-)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:09:50 +1000 (EST)
Cc: brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
In-Reply-To: <AAEM-Cpa27@mpak.convey.ru> from "-= ArkanoiD =-" at Mar 22, 97 04:58:38 pm
Content-Type: text

> 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 is just nice... :) 
 
> 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.

Thats poor programming practice. If a program starts doing an infinate loop
and stops processing messages, it will naturally do this. Its not the best
situation, but hey, who said Microsloth were great programmers? :)  If you
really need to kill the task, just ctrl-alt-delete, select the task, and
shut it down. Easy no?

Leathal.