Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!sjc!leia!harkcom From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: mwm - impossible task? (Now Long) Message-ID: Date: 25 May 91 05:48:51 GMT References: <1991May16.143406.6111@dkwgate.uucp> <1991May22.155819.13389@dkwgate.uucp> Sender: news@leia.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Lines: 45 In-reply-to: jr@einstein.dkw.com's message of 22 May 91 15:58:19 GMT In article <1991May22.155819.13389@dkwgate.uucp> jr@einstein.dkw.com (J.R. Jesson) writes: =}Your company either (1) paid alot of money to take part =}in a development effort - to join monetarily with a consortium of =}organizations, or (2) paid the handling costs for distributing source. 1) No and 2) No My company purchased mwm as a finished product (binary)... =}Either way, your company accepted the liability of working with =}essentially beta software. It is not a beta. It is a 'finished' product that doesn't quite seem finished... ;-) =}(The headers on my mwm source say it's beta!) I wish I had the source, then I could customize the user interface to my taste. I could also squash the bugs instead of finding work-arounds. But unfortunately the OSF isn't open... =}has good (getting better) internationalization I work in a Japanese environment. Though I will admit to the 'getting better' part, the 'good' part is far from being true... =}and has good promise for future growth and enhancement As do the other wm's... =}If these factors are not important to you, =}you should look elsewhere for a windowing environment. These factors are important to me. The most important though, is the ability to customize the user interface. Since these are the areas where most of the problems I have with mwm are, I would think that your advice about looking elsewhere is sound, except that it is not my decision... =}I offer J.R.'s corollary #192: "too may cooks spoil the software." But if you haven't got a chef, you have to have a lot of cooks... Al