From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/03 Message-ID: <7gjb7d$5po$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 473392591 References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <37289A2C.4B78EB60@rocketmail.com> <7gesv8$1bol@drn.newsguy.com> <372BB93F.7DCFD2E1@rocketmail.com> <7ggi1v$p2i@drn.newsguy.com> <372C00C6.D9AA6D72@online.no> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x8.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 139.78.81.187 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon May 03 05:12:15 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.51 [en] (Win98; I) Date: 1999-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <372C00C6.D9AA6D72@online.no>, "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" wrote: > There is also the "minor" point of the X/GUI people deciding that printing > was not important and had nothing to do with graphical user interfaces. > Calling those who decided that idiots would be cheritable. Why? It has nothing to do with GUI's. I might want to print from the CLI at anytime, and would want it to work the same way. Part of Unix's advantage is modularity. If something breaks, it and only it can be fixed or replaced. This would mix two totally unrelated things. Not saying that printing doesn't need some work in Unix (I still haven't got my printer working under Linux), but it's not X's job to do printing, and there is no reason it should be. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own