| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3157.1 | Me too! | NEWVAX::BCASTRO | Robert M. | Wed Nov 07 1990 12:44 | 5 |
| I have a customer making the same request.
He seems to think the user should have the option to list and select
the fonts he wishes in whatever DECwindows' application DEC provides
with the VMS system.
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| 3157.2 | Suggestion noted | STAR::VATNE | Peter Vatne, VMS Development | Wed Nov 07 1990 13:44 | 14 |
| The customer is right, it is an obvious extension to all of our
applications to be able to customize the fonts. Unfortunately,
all the effort for DECwindows V3 went into converting to Motif,
so don't expect anything in the near future.
However, there is perhaps a workaround in DECwindows V3. The
V3 server will support font alias files that will allow the
system manager to "alias" fonts from one name to another. The
font alias file could be used to map an entire set of fonts to
another set of fonts. For example, one could map all the 10
point fonts to 12 point, 12 point to 14 point, etc., and presto,
every single application will be using a larger font! The
drawback of course is that no exceptions can be made, every
application will use the re-mapped fonts unconditionally.
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| 3157.3 | | LESLIE::LESLIE | Andy Leslie | Wed Nov 07 1990 14:32 | 13 |
| > <<< Note 3157.2 by STAR::VATNE "Peter Vatne, VMS Development" >>>
>Unfortunately,
>all the effort for DECwindows V3 went into converting to Motif,
>so don't expect anything in the near future.
...like user-friendliness? This is a song sung FAR too often - if we
can't do a job properly, why bother in producing half of a good
product?
(Yes I'm in a bad mood today)
/andy/
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| 3157.4 | These are the facts | STAR::VATNE | Peter Vatne, VMS Development | Thu Nov 08 1990 17:12 | 26 |
| > ...like user-friendliness? This is a song sung FAR too often - if we
> can't do a job properly, why bother in producing half of a good
> product?
We in engineering don't like the situation any better than you do.
Unfortunately, we have a limited headcount. When it came to deciding
what to put into DECwindows V3, the choices were slim:
1) Add user-friendliness and all sorts of good features
or
2) Convert to Motif
I'm oversimplifying, but that was the main gist of things. We felt
that if we didn't convert to Motif, then we definitely didn't have
a product that could compete. With Motif, at least we could stay
in the game another round. I don't think our competition's products
are any more friendly than ours. It is true that they at least
document the resource files, which allow customers to fool around
with things. The central question then is, does documenting how
to change things in resource files constitute "user-friendliness"?
I don't know the answer to that last question. We would certainly
like to hear opinions from the field as to what customers consider
as user-friedliness.
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| 3157.5 | | LESLIE::LESLIE | Andy Leslie | Thu Nov 08 1990 17:23 | 10 |
| Yes I know the facts in this case. They are the facts based upon the
allocation of resources and time-to-market that virtually made it
impossible to deliver a complete product to our customer base - in
Version 3 this is just plain daft.
My opinion is that we (DEC) must get our act together, or we won't be
in business in 1995. And *that* is a fact.
/andy/
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| 3157.6 | | STAR::MCLEMAN | Jeff McLeman, VMS development | Fri Nov 09 1990 07:23 | 2 |
| So Andy, your going to come over and help, right? :-)
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| 3157.7 | Given intern'l relo'.... | LESLIE::LESLIE | Andy Leslie | Fri Nov 09 1990 10:15 | 7 |
| Jeff,
yes, I'd love to. If you have an open req. then I'll apply for it
like a shot and be there within a month.
/andy/
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