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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OL != Motif
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.183831.18668@alphalpha.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:38:31 GMT
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In article <9102281530.AA03852@underprize.think.com> rlk@think.COM (Robert L Krawitz) writes:
>simple interface without all the bells and whistles?  I will NOT run mwm
>just to run some application that won't cooperate with some other window
>manager.  I do NOT want my screen cluttered with all sorts of useless
Sounds good.  I won't write an application that won't cooperate with some
other window manager.  That doesn't have anything in particular to do with
Motif though.

>I do not find an artificial three dimensional effect (shadowing)
>pleasant or natural to deal with.  I do not have depth perception, and
>do not normally rely on depth cues of this nature even when dealing with
>material objects.  I do not want my screen to mimic a three dimensional
You're welcome to set the shadow width to 0.  That should work fine.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.