2 Dec
2005
2 Dec
'05
4:33 a.m.
So what does
real unix use for a GUI?
The X Window System. With the Tab Window Manager (twm)
which is tiny
and a stock part of the 'base' X Window System. [...] The rest is all fluff. (but I confess that I use
fvwm).
Actually, twm has quite a bit of fluff itself. Title bars, menus,
icons, etc. And that's just from the user-interface poin of view;
since it's an Xt-using program, it's got a huge amount of fluff at the
code level. (My take on it is "title bars belong in Hollywood; menus
belong in restaurants; icons belong in shrines". My window manager has
none of them - and uses Xlib directly.)
Not that I have anything against fluff per se. Nor do I think that
someone who likes it shouldn't use such a WM. But I don't want fluff
in my day-to-day GUI.
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