Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
- Subject: Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
- From: "Andrew J. Hesford" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:25:19 -0600
On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Ambrose Li wrote:
Sometimes I really hoped that Quartz had never existed, and Apple
had chosen X11 as the foundation of OS X's GUI. This way we could
have changed keymappings using xmodmap, for example, or typed
Chinese using the superior scim system.
God, what a horrible thought. Of course, if we're going to take
that thought to its logical conclusion, then I'll jump in and wish
that we'd never stopped using ASCII terminals. GUIs, pfah, what a
terrible idea when all we really wanted was a terminal to run emacs
with! Everything back in the 1970s was just fine, why did we have
to change a thing?
</sarcasm> :-)
Let's try to keep on target here - comparative window system
discussions is a bit like comparative editor discussions. Nobody
wins the argument and everyone else forced to watch it loses too.
But everybody knows Vim is the best editor! There's no need for
arguments!
The only thing I wish Quartz would do is provide network transparency.
I think DPS used to do that in NeXTSTEP, but I never used NeXTSTEP. It
would be awesome if I could open iCal on my home Mac from my iBook,
without using VNC to give me the whole desktop!
--
Andrew J. Hesford <email@hidden>
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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