Very weird, against conventional wisdom
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| phsolide Sep 23, 2008 5:05 PM EDT |
The existance of a veritable multitude of terminal emulators (along with the multi-colored galaxy of window managers) contradicts the "received wisdom", doesn't it? I mean, a "consistent" user interface is supposedly everything, and I mean everything in user interface, isn't it? Back when O'Reilly published all the X11 manuals, the Xlib manual claimed that the world did not ever need another window manager. The introduction almost seemed apologetic about the book even existing. Every dadgum unix vendor used to ship a slightly modified, slightly less than useful xterm modification. "aixterm", "hpterm", whatever that stupid, stupid CDE's stupid, stupid ultra-stupid xterm mod was called. Vendors should never have been allowed to modify xterm. |
| jezuch Sep 24, 2008 12:55 AM EDT |
Yeah... There was a time in the Java community when every day someone wrote a rant about how to make Swing (Java's cross-platform widget toolkit) look "native" and why it's absofreakinlutely essential to world peace and curing cancer.
Today, I seem to see lots of howtos about "how to make your application look UNIQUE". But my perspective may be biased. |
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