NextStep/OpenStep on PC?

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Thu Nov 16 23:36:15 2000

> The flashy problem has partially been addressed by allowing you to change
> the button colours from 'aqua' to 'charcoal'. What ticks me off is that the
> classic Mac and the NeXT interfaces were very sleek. The new interface is
> far from what I'd consider sleek!

Really? I found it quite compelling, especially the rasterised icons and
the transparency effects, and the "warping" window animation. XWindows is
IMHO antiquated by comparison: I've never liked GNOME or KDE, for example.
Give me a text login any day compared to those, but the OS X interface is
to me clean and sophisticated.

> As for having tried it, I have, but not extensively. If I could find time
> to do more than just play with it, it might grow on me. As it stands, it's
> made a bad initial impression on me to the extent that Motif and CDE seem
> preferable!

I got a lot of time to play with it on a G4, and I really was blown away
from the first minute. Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but I think it's
a nice Unix system (well, okay, I'm happy with anything that runs Perl, and
it runs Perl :-), and I dig the interface. For me, the sour note is
compatibility, but I suppose a break from the past was needed sometime.

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