Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!vd09+ From: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The Mouse -- What is its History? Message-ID: <4b6rz2i00awUA5o2gz@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 16 Oct 90 21:46:42 GMT References: <21056@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1123@helens.Stanford.EDU> <9028@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Oct11.174840.21598@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> , Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.mac.system: 15-Oct-90 Re: The Mouse -- > What is it.. Bruce Barnett@grymoire.c (570) > It really bugs me when people knock X windows for the wrong reason. > X Windows was designed to be policy free. it doesn't HAVE a user interface. *BUT* the supplied toolkits which are used in the "sample clients" give it a user-interface, even if one that is nominally not standardized by the suppliers. This user interface (which, for lack of a better term, some people have called the "X interface"--I would imagine that it's actually the Xt/Xaw interface, though I could be wrong) is not too bad--I've seen better and worse. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Vincent Del Vecchio \ #include | | Box 4834 \ #include | | 5125 Margaret Morrison St.\ BITNET: vd09+%andrew@cmuccvma.bitnet | | Pittsburgh, PA 15213 \ UUCP: harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!vd09 | | (412) 268-4441 \ Internet: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+