Can I made an admission? I have always thought, and I still think, that X-Windows sucks. There's something about it that hasn't changed since the SparcStations days that really creeps me out. There's just something in the way it refreshes that makes me feel less .. interfaced to. In some ways Windows is a User Interface and X-Windows is a Machine Interface.
Apple did a great thing is OS/X with their own desktop manager. (Also, I'm addicted to ClearType in Windows 7. It even does it different on different screens on the same computer.) I think I love GNU/Linux but really hate the dresses she wears. 2009/10/27 Fearghas McKay <[email protected]> > > On 27 Oct 2009, at 20:01, Matt Jones wrote: > > Sorry, I meant the bit about making Linux a copy of the windows interface. >> > > Sorry to be dense - but surely that is either a function of > > a The window manager > > b The applications > > rather than the Linux kernel that the GNU/Linux people keep insisting is > the core & true spirit of Linux. .cf earlier threads. > > FWIW the last few Ubuntu interfaces I have used have felt more like > Windows7 than any other UI, but I couldn't actually tell you the name of the > Window Managers responsible :) > > I do think that the things that are more important are the applications UI > and specifically the Set File/Find File/Open File interfaces. > > Cheers > > f > > PS who is probably being a bit pedantic after all the whining from > GNU/Linux naming advocates in threads passim :-) > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
