RE: tlug: Fw: Could Linux Kill NT?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     Matt> you hit the tab key, the cursor usually moves in a
>     Matt> reasonable way ... all sorts of normal and intuitive GUI
>     Matt> behavior that is annoyingly broken in Motif. And the stupid
>     Matt> backspace/delete thing ... alright, I guess it's not Motif's
>     Matt> fault, and it's a trivial fix for most of us. But if we want
>     Matt> mass appeal, those sorts of problems have to go away.
> 
> If it's a trivial fix for _us_, then Scott Stone and Ian Jackson and
> watzisface at cdrom.com can do it too, in app-defaults or using the
> Motif keyboard manager, and we'll never see it again.

Well, I'm proud to report that the backspace key works correctly under
Motif apps on TurboLinux... it's really just a matter of using XKB, which
X handles internally.

BTW, *is* anyone at cdrom.com doing anything desktop-related for
Slackware?

Besides, I thought this whole thread was about Linux vs NT, meaning,
server functionality.  I would think that NT would have taught people the
lesson that GUI and servers don't mix, and you should completely avoid
using a GUI on a server machine....?

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