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RE: [TCLUG:3372] UI (was: Windows NT pricing)
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- Subject: RE: [TCLUG:3372] UI (was: Windows NT pricing)
- From: Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:13:53 -0600 (CST)
- In-Reply-To: <03A1398EBC78D111A34E00805F154E7A01C6C0C5@m38a.nmb.norwest.com>
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Schlough, Mark (NM IT) wrote:
> There is a compression tool that gets up to 10 times the compression on
> the X protocol and normally gets about 4 times that under normal use.
> This was mentioned in LJ a few months ago.
Well, that is cool.
> > n o n - e x i s t e n t U I c o n s i s t e n c y
>
> Are you talking about the X server, the window manager.... what
> part?
The fact that there *exist* multiple window managers, and that the nuts
and bolts of UI are not built into the display server as they should be.
> > s h i t t y f o n t r e n d e r i n g
>
> again, is this X or something else?
That'd be X.
> > Again, though, X is lacking in applications,
>
> Technically, X Windows _is_ an application. That's all. It is
> a server/client application. That's it.
I'm talking about applications that do real work, like GIMP and Word
Pefect. There are few and generally low quality.
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