On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:53:23 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Nope, uh uh, not a good idea ... > On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:36:47 +0200, Or Botton wrote: >> Because this stuff: Multitasking, Windows support API, and etc', >> can be added later. This is the basic GUI. You can use it to >> make it anything you want, because its going to be Open-Source. >> Its an empty kanvas, just waiting for a programmer to do with >> it whatever the programmer wants. > If that is true, then it was released to the "public" in error. > The secret of GUI is the INTERFACE ... If a "desktop" does not have a > way to INTERFACE with existing software, then it isn't a GUI ... it is > nothing except a bad screen saver. Or is saying that an independent group of volunteer programmers would work with the open source to develop some functions to build into the Qube software so as to give it the needed interface and other capabilities. I will agree that as Qube appears now in its present form it is nothing more than a bad screen saver. It just looks pretty but it won't do anything really useful. It is already a GUI in the sense that you run an application by clicking on an icon. The great shortcoming is that it won't run existing software at present. Or says that it may have promise to become something highly useful if it gets further developed. I can agree with him. Many of the current functions are just stubbed out. It remains for some other programmers to add the additional needed object code. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
