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dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) writes:
> In article <9Lsm25w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST
> DIE!) writes:
> >Please name some Mac look-and-feel ideas which are not trivial, and which ca
> >from Apple research.
> 
> Please name some GNU/FSF look and feel ideas [...]
> Please name some GNU/FSF look and feel ideas [...]
> Please name some GNU/FSF look and feel ideas [...]
> Please name some GNU/FSF look and feel ideas [...]

Please!  Answering a question with long lists of questions is a pretty poor
way to take part in a debate.

Besides, I asked first :-)

> I mean all this whining about look n feel and virtually no Graphical GNU
> tools exist! On any major Graphical environment.

Of course no graphical GNU tools exist. Until the Apple/Microsoft lawsuit is
settled, nobody in the FSF knows what might and might not be covered by user
interface copyright. There's no point producing a mouse, icons and menus
version of GNU Emacs if Apple can prevent its distribution.

> I mean HEY I'd like to use something like the Linked-List Visualization for
> Debugging as written in the May 91 issue of IEEE software that runs on top
> of gdb.

Right. Now supposing BigCorp develops that idea for their bcdb debugger. You
might then be prohibited from using that sort of interface on gdb, even
though BigCorp didn't originate the idea itself.

That's what we're fighting for -- the user's right to have the interface he
wants AND the functionality he wants.


mathew