Needs educating: Message from Linux (fwd)

[Kirk Wood]

One more note in how Gnompernicus will work: Most apps in linux are
written along standardized lines. Most X apps take full advantage of the
widgets provided by the library. Now this is hugely because linux is not
for the masses. The programs are written by geeks for geeks.

When an app fails to use standardized widgets often times it must be
written to fit a particular window manager. But there is also less reason
to want to as the widgets are written with much more flexability then
macroslop equivilants. Instead of wanting to adorn the program with eye
candy from the program the general means is to allow the eye candy to be
applied via the shell.

Put another way, the general users of linux desire to customize the look
of their computer. This extends to all the programs. This is opposed to
the macroslop world where most users wouldn't have a clue. In the m$
world, companies go to great lengths to make their program look a certain
way. This is at the expense of being able to make the entire system look a
certain way. It also happens to be at the expense of the poor screen
reader trying to understand what is presented.

The best thing here is to understand that x and m$ are fundamentally
different just as linux is fundamentally different from dos.

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Kirk Wood
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