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From: tay@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Mike Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Question on GUI's
Message-ID: <110630050@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 17 May 91 15:41:20 GMT
References: <5479@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> |> Vuewm has my vote for the superior with the support of multiple workspaces
> |> alone.
> 
> Funny, how hardware vendors love their own software that requires the end-
> user to purchase for hardware (i.e. memory) from said vendor.  8^)

Biases admitted; but the functionality of having mutiple workspaces
really helps me organize my work better.  The Style Manager (vuestyle)
is also very nice.  It helps you to configure color combinations, fonts,
backdrops, and other system user interface customizing.  The VUE Front
Panel has icons for starting my email, a terminal emulator, and lock
my display.  VUE also allows you to log out and log right back in with
the same processes executing when you logged out (yes, log right back in 
to X with n of your favorite processes running).  The login is 
graphically-based too.  I have just started configuring VUE Actions which 
are represented with icons (custom if you like) which are configured to 
process certain file types and execute processes I have defined.  The 
on-line help system isn't too bad either, depending on the text.  There 
are also icons on the front panel for file icons you manipulate with 
the file manager, but I still use my hpterm for my primary mode of file 
system traversal.

Yes, VUE is somewhat of a memory pig.  But my system is a 16Meg 400t 
cluster node and VUE performance is very adequate for my needs.  VUE 
performance on a 32Meg 720 is instant as far as I could tell.


Pax,

Mike Taylor
Current Products Engineering & Online
Interface Technology Operation

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