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Kent Fredric posted on Tue, 05 Sep 2017 07:29:42 +1200 as excerpted: |
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> On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:16:46 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." |
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> <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Maybe just UI but that maybe to generic. |
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface |
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> As a side question, what does "xui" mean in this world? |
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> I went googling and all I could find was "X User Interface" |
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> And all I could find there is that's "A user interface to the X Windows |
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> System" |
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> Are we allowed to consider Wayland and X11 are both "X Windows Systems" |
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> providing "X User Interfaces", despite the underlying protocols being |
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> different? |
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Warnock agree? |
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(Tho posting makes it no longer warnock.) Thanks for the warnock |
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reference[1], BTW. I knew of the problem but had no name for it, so you |
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broadened my vocabulary in a very useful way. =:^) |
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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