Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!morley.rutgers.edu!purtill From: purtill@morley.rutgers.edu (Mark Purtill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NOT (click to type) in NeXTStep? Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 22:05:07 GMT References: <1990Oct28.165341.6949@cs.cmu.edu> <2955@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>, Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) writes: >purtill@morley.rutgers.edu (Mark Purtill) writes: >> NeXTStep should provide an OPTION for pointer focus... >I can't agree. One of the horrible things about X11 is that it is too >customizable. This is bad for several reasons; it's particularly bad >for support people. I thought a NeXT was supposed to me a machine to make users more productive, not support people happier. Being different from what I'm used to is *not* going to make me more productive. Forcing me to use a fixed interface that someone else likes but that I hate will not make me more productive. It may make me buy a Sparc instead of a NeXT though, and if enough people do likewise, there won't BE any NeXT support people. Besides, I don't really see how this would make life more difficult for support anyway, unless they want to sit down at my machine and type (and point), which is not likely anyway. What are the other "several" reasons? ^.-.^ Mark Purtill purtill@dimacs.rutgers.edu (201)932-4580 (O) ((")) P.O. Box 1179, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ 08855 (201)220-6905 (H)