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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Question on GUI's
Message-ID: <9105100510.AA09158@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 10 May 91 05:10:34 GMT
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> I am working on a project team that will be replacing our direct
> connect async terminals with workstations.  One of my tasks is to
> recommend the Window Manager to be implemented across the network.

> We operate in a customer support organization where the level of
> technical expertise varies from engineers who support various
> products to the code level, down to a technical dispatch group.

I *strongly* recommend that you do not prescribe the window manager to
be used.  It is not bad - in fact it is probably good - to provide
(internal) support for some one WM, or some small set, and it is
probably necessary to provide a default setup that is supported, so
that the non-literate types don't have to learn things they don't
really want or need to, but imposing the same WM on the types who *do*
know what they want is definitely undesirable.

As for *which* wm, I am not a good person to ask; I tar olwm, twm, mwm,
etc, all with the same brush, and have yet to find as many as two other
people who like the one I use.

					der Mouse

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