Re: What computer would you buy to replace your //* ?

[rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall)]

In article <54703@sophia.inria.fr> glaurent@aye.inria.fr (Guillaume Laurent) writes:
[Lots of stuff nuked everywhere]

>   Unix is still easier to customize than MS-DOS, or X Windows than the Mac GU

	I don't agree with that.  Of course I also dont' think that
sector editors are hard to operate :)

>   You didn't get my point. I wasn't thinking about a computer neophyte, but o
>   confirmed user. Ok, let's take a simple example. I'm in front of a Mac and 

     ^^^ Who doesn't understand resedit? o-k

>   terminal, and I want to change the label of a button in an application.
>
>   Under X Win. all I have to do is edit my .Xdefaults file, which structure i
>   rather easy to understand, and that can be edited with any text editor. Add
>   a line in that file with a simple cut&paste from a similar line, then

	Um, what if you don't HAVE a "similar line" and don't know
what it is supposed to look like?  Time to break out the books.

>   relauching the application and that's all.

>   Under the mac, I have to launch a resource editor, which is not available f
>   plain users because "ohhh no, it's too complicated for them", that will al

	I don't think I have ever known a single mac user who didn't
have resedit.  (not that I know many.. but still)

>   me to edit this button, but I don't have a fucking clue about which file th
>   application edits, nor about how it edits it.

	Umm.. You're saying that someone has made a golden rule
(presumably you are refering to Apple) that everything is too
complicated for the user, and then go onto say that you have no idea
which file you are changing with resedit or how it works?  Sounds like
the "rule" is confirmed.

	My point is that for someone who is experienced with x-windows
(like you obviously are) and clueless about the mac, then customizing
x-windows will be easier.  Somone who is experienced on macs will
doubtless think that customizing the mac is easier.

	I have no doubt that I could use resedit to customize a macprog in
minutes (although I have never used it before)  I suspect it would
take me alot longer to figure out how to customize a program running
under xwindows.


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