Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NeXT & Interface Builders Message-ID: <6865@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 22 Oct 90 12:00:28 GMT References: <6803@sugar.hackercorp.com> <123395@linus.mitre.org> <1990Oct22.053501.23675@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 23 In article <1990Oct22.053501.23675@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > Applications programmers writing directly to X windows instead of to a > higher level standard interface (toolkit, GUI) built on top of it are > just people heavily into pain. If people writing directly in Xlib are masochists, people bloating their code with humungous toolkit libraries are sadists. Thanks to the miracle of X, a 6 Meg 386 is just barely enough to provide the *basic* functionality we've come to expect from a 512K Amiga 1000. The bottom line is that the details of user interface issues belong in the server, where they're configured by the *user* and shared by dozens of programs. Putting this stuff in the client is like having every program do its own erase and kill processing. Time for a new group, I think. "alt.x.bondage". "Sometimes when you fill a vaccuum, it still sucks" -- Dennis Ritchie on X. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .