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From: crouch@axion.bt.co.uk (Chris Rouch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5?
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Date: 11 Jul 90 15:27:49 GMT
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I polled our users to find out what they'd like to see in R5. They are
mostly from a technical background, but see X as a tool, i.e. they just
want to login and go, they're not that interested in configuring it.
Anyway the sensible suggestions were:

a resource editor  (akin to Sunview's defaultseditor perhaps)

a good file organiser (perhaps similar to the sunview organizer), the
idea being that naive users don't need or want to learn how to use unix
- they're much happier with a wimp interface.

An improved xedit, allowing WYSIWYG editting and multiple windows.

(What I'd really like to see is some good spreadsheets, databases, word
processors, project management tools, etc. for X, so we can get rid of
all the bl**dy PCs, but I suspect this is not something the consortium
will be providing.)


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Chris Rouch                                             crouch@axion.bt.co.uk
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