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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: GUI [was:]Ann: TeXCAD 4.1
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:18:35 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2004-03-19, Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
> Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote:
>: 
>: Sure as long as they don't have to pay for PhotoShop or need the extra
>: functionality.
>
> No, actually some people pay for software.

If you pay 500-600 euro for a software that does not give you any
additional features but only a slightly different GUI, then either 1)
you are not paying or 2) you have too much money or 3) you extemely
picky about unimportant details.
>
> Yes, I do mean this tool. I'd venture a guess that not many engineers
> are familiar with tools of this sort although it is in frequent use.
> I can imagine many more or less metaphorical uses of a muffineer control
> in GUIs.

In the beginning of the sentence you were talking about spesific widgets
so I thought these where some special widgets the Mac OS had.

Anyway I'll stop this discussion for my part and rather do some coding
in Ada :-)

-- 
Preben Randhol -------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/

()  "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"
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