On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, luser wrote:
>
> > Who really gives a toss about something as unproductive as a
> > screensaver ? I'd rather leave the window decorations for some
> > other OS that needs dicky little features for the masses.
>
> Wrong. The most of people ussing computers aren't programmers, and they
> can't understend what is in kernel, what is IPC so on. They aren't
> interested if their desktop must be rebooted from 2 on 2 days or should run
Do you meant hours?
> 1 year without reboot ( in fact this is important for a server but who
> cares about for a desktop ? ).
> They look at pictures, they look at "nice features" as a 3d screensaver or
There are already some 3d screensaver included in xlock...
We are moving offtopic...
> to posibility to add a trail to the mouse. They are very impressed if when
> text editor start, arise a "small stuppid man" who tell him a lot of
> unusable things, or ...........
Something like the program Eliza included in Emacs? Nah ... that 'small
stuppid man' is so stupid that cannot even answer your questions...
(My friends are much more impressed by Eliza).
> And usualy those people are who decide what systems they will have in the
> company. And think about: what they choice ??????????????
I disbelieve evolution, but do you know Darwin's natural selection theory?
Only the best ones survive, not the most beautiful ones.
> So my opinion is: Decoration must be part from a desktop OS becouse in
> other side "the other OS that needs dicky features" will eliminate the good
> OSs. And we will be forced to use those to , and only those !!!
We are moving offtopic...
Regards,
Michele
