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From: rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr (Richard Caley)
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Subject: Re: Wish list for R5
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Date: 13 Aug 90 23:44:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: mouse@SHAMASH.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU's message of 13 Aug 90 02:25:51 GMT

In article <9008130225.AA21698@shamash.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@SHAMASH.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse) writes:

    Someone else on xpert (rws, I think it was) gave another example,
    something like

	    *shapeStyle: oval

    I would find having to separately customize the same changes into each
    application I want to use extremely irritating. 

First I'd like to suport this pela that should anything be done to the
defaults mechanism it should loose none of is present power. Being
able to make all my comand buttons look the same no matter what the
whims of the person who wrote it is wonderful.

Secondly would it be possible to have a blitz on the clients for R5 to
make them all use resources nicely? I realise that most of the worst
offenders are contributed clients ( xcalender caused me no end of
pain... ) but, for instance, the xman title and icon label seems to
have been glued in with epoxy, it took me ages to manage to change it.
As the manual says, TWM is another one. 

Thirdly, as a piece of pure fantasy, it would be wonderful if some way
could be found of allowing resources to specify extra buttons and menu
items as well as changing the labels and effects of ones which exist.
For instance I might wish to move an action from being on a menu
behind a button to being on a button of its own. Always assuming that
there is not some way to do this already which has escaped my
notice...

    I would also offer a plea for the preservation of the current system
    (or something like it) as the internal mechanism because I would rather
    edit a file than use a customization tool that's someone else's idea of
    "user-friendly" - and I'm sure I'm not the only one (though I daresay
    we're probably a minority).

Your not the only one...

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