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From: gilbert@hci.hw.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: X and the future
Message-ID: <168@glenlivet.hci.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Feb 88 11:07:13 GMT
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Reply-To: gilbert@hci.hw.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
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In article <8802032048.AA12237@uunet.UU.NET> mo@maximo.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) writes:
>The astonishing baroqueness of X is the greatest threat
>to the general sucess of UNIX to have come along since   ...
There is still hope for a decent X tool-kit.  Why can't the MITechies
look at the development of Star and the Macintosh?  Two sets of skills
played a major role in their attractiveness: human factors evaluation
and graphic design.  The latter may be more responsible for the
attractiveness of the Mac than anything else - after all once you
start using a Mac, you realise that the HF evaluation wasn't always
too searching.  Yet the Mac attracts users who run miles from real
computers :-) - SunView, GEM, AMIGA toolkit and MSWindows don't seem to have 
been anywhere near a graphic designer either.

So why don't MIT put a little of that SciFi research money into designing
a toolbox *PROPERLY*?
-- 
Gilbert Cockton, Scottish HCI Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Chambers St.,
Edinburgh, EH1 1HX.  JANET:  gilbert@uk.ac.hw.hci   
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