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From: Boris Maryshev <boris.maryshev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno
Date: Thu,  8 Mar 2007 21:41:16 +0200
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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http://9fans.net/archive/1995/08/20

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On 8 Mar 2007, at 21:02, Geoffrey Avila wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, don bailey wrote:
>
>> I'm really with Minnich on this one. The GUI is what *everyone*
>> complains about and it's always the *first* thing they complain
>> about. I deal with pretty intelligent people in the security
>> community and they can't handle Rio and don't want to.
>>
>
> Yeah. I've actually heard that firsthand from some of our  
> visualization people. I mean, they would also want support for hw  
> OpenGL, which we can't do (yet), but apparently the Rio aesthetic  
> was lost on them.
>
> While I don't think it'd be worth it to port the giant GTK+/GNOME  
> hairball over, I do miss the 3D-look window borders, which (to me)  
> make it easier to distinguish edges for grabbing and moving  
> purposes. If GNOME is too much candyfloss & tinsel, how about a  
> 3dwm-look?
>
> -GBA
>