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From: donn@MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Donn Cave)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: VOM Look
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Date: 27 Jul 90 18:40:54 GMT
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From a couple of estheticians:
>you would think they could invest some time into making them more visually 
>appealing.  Would 3-D color effects really be that hard to do for one of ...

>What about a compromise: decent 3d look which does NOT waste resources
>(not only CPU cycles) the way Motif does ?

Does beautiful graphic design depend on fake 3-D ornamentation?  I hope
not!  But whatever esthetic principles inspire our would-be graphic designers,
I hope they will also consider screen "real estate" as a resource.  Most of
the window managers I've seen want to add considerably to the size of a window,
forcing me to overlap windows that could otherwise be adjacent.  Twm, to its
credit, allows me to control the size of these decorations.  Window managers
from the "look fascism" camps aren't generally so flexible.

		Donn Cave
		University Computing Services
		University of Washington
		donn@cac.washington.edu