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In <5hmt5d$r9u$2@trsvr.tr.unisys.com>, benjamin.romer@unisys.com (Benjamin Romer) writes:
>In article <333D1325.6E47@NOSPAM.ibm.net>, duboisp@NOSPAM.ibm.net says...
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>>crobato@kuentos.guam.net wrote:
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>[snip]
>>I hope *I* didn't get confused ;-)
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>>-- 
>>Pieter Dubois
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>
>Not at all, you're absolutely right. But I think that Chris must have
>missed my point.
>
>I wasn't asking for a PM-based X Server, what I want is an OS/2 based
>system running X Windows as its primary UI, e.g. replace PM with X. This 
>would add a great deal of value to the system as a whole, increase 
>interoperability, solve a number of problems like the SIQ, and give OS/2 a
>real industry-standard GUI to throw around.
>
>People would probably want a Motif look to the system, but personally I hate
>motif and I think it's irritating that Unix would try to standardize a widget
>set that is basically a copy of Windoze 3.1's controls.
>
>Even better would be a Display PostScript system similar to NeXT or Solaris
>NeWS, which gives us perfect WYSIWYG, as well as font-smoothing. Throw in
>dynamic colorlevel and resolution switching, and you've got yourself one
>powerful high-end graphics system.

I got what you mean.  It sounds like XFree86 for OS/2 does that.  But I 
would not expect IBM to be doing this and it's out of IBM's target 
scans. Several years ago it may have sounded more feasible.  Right now, 
IBM appears to be doing a Hot Java user interface on top of OS/2, that 
is, a user interface based on Java.  It can purely be a more restricted 
browser type interface, or it can be WPS based on Java, or something 
called the Lotus Desktop, which I think is a Java based desktop that 
will be developed by Lotus.  (One advantage OS/2 has for IBM is being 
that it is IBM's own, IBM is free to tinker with it.)


>
>I'd gladly pay double or more for a decent OS/2 GUI system. PM seems like
>it's become old and more sluggish every single time I use it. 
>

Are you using Warp v4 with a decent accelerator card?  In my Matrox 
Millenium and Cyrix P166+, everything flies.

No GUI is perfect for me.  When I sit down on one, I can easily 
see faults in one or another, and I also see some nice feature in one 
GUI that I wish to see on the other.  I see advantages in X but I don't 
see any reason why it is better all around than WPS.

Rgds,

Chris



"Devant le comportement irrationnel de sa machine, j'ai compris que se
poser en dfenseur de Windows releve de la plus profonde bassesse. J'ai
honte"  ---  Eric Bernatchez,  "La Presse" newspaper, "Cyberpresse"
column, March 22, 1997, Montreal, Canada.

"Confronted with his machines irrational behaviour, it dawned upon me 
that taking the position of Windows advocate is of the lowest possible 
ethics. I am ashamed".

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