Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!codonics!bret From: bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: where X went wrong Message-ID: <2139@codonics.COM> Date: 26 Sep 90 05:45:07 GMT References: <141973@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <9009091549.AA21182@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Codonics, Inc., Middleburg Heights, OH Lines: 29 In article ea08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric A. Anderson) writes: >I think the primary problem with X is this : It is being programmed by >people working in their spare time. Apple had many people work for a >long time to create the Mac, ditto with IBM, and Microsoft. X has had >college students finding free time to do some sort of a program, and >because of this there has been no standard as to the way things will >work. The MIT X Consortium is primarily an industry group. (Check your Xconsortium man page for a fairly recent list.) >Both Motif, and Open Look will change that, these two groups are >spending people and money to get their products to market. As such, >they are generating a consistant user interface. If all of the X >clients had had people who were being paid to do their work, and it was >being done by a single group, I am sure that they too would have a more >consistant interface. The X Window System is not intended to provide a consistent user interface. It is intended to provide a set of capabilities on which any number of user interfaces can be built. -- ------------------- bret@codonics.com uunet!codonics!bret Bret Orsburn