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Taso Hatzi <taso@esands.com> wrote:
> (1) A common AND full-function GUI. twm, fvwm, etc just don't cut it.

There's no way you'd get me to switch from wm2 unless you paid me ;).
OTOH, I doubt *you'd* like wm2. You probably have your own favourite.
Diversity is good :).

> (2) A standard way for the GUI and applications to talk to each other.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of standards. Agreed.

> (3) Support True Type fonts.

True Type fonts aren't *that* difficult to install, especially with the
package management in RedHat and Debian.

> (4) Printing.

Requires reading some docs. Easier configuration methods probably aren't
that hard. Write a shell script and get kudos from us all :)

> (5) Sound.

Sound is a bitch. Agreed.

> All of the above can be done now, but there really needs to be ONE
> set of programming interfaces for developers of GUI apps.

I don't agree. There should be a few. Probably one ought to be a cutesy
GUI, but, definitely not at the expense of a good CLI interface for us
folks who use monochrome monitors and telnet connections for the majority 
of our computing :).


Peter.