On Wed, 9 Jun 1993 03:06:54 GMT, lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam) said:

  SL> I think we need much more than good defaults. Programs using Xaw don't
  SL> look very good, Xaw3d is slightly better but doesn't look as nics as 
  SL> Windows, Motif is good but it's not free. Besides, we need a decent
  SL> Desktop manager. xdtm is good, but IMHO, not very easy to use. The
  SL> biggest problem is that most X programs don't come with icons, but
  SL> most Windows apps do, and they are nice color icons too...

Xaw programs look simple, but clear. Same goes for icons. All these
things that look so nice (or less, loke open look) make your work not
more effiecient, on the contrary.

Why would you need an icon with a colorful picture representing a
spreadsheet, why not have a a number of boxes (like twm's iconmanager)
with the name of the application in it ("spreadsheet"). Often the
pictures are hardly recognizable, and they take up so much room on
your screen, which is always too small.
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