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>> The GUI is quite nice if you actually use it.
>So the SGI monitors makes it look nicer than the screenshot does on >my Windows XP PC? Must be some monitors...

All I'm saying is that the GUI works quite well in practice with the colors it has. Windows XP looks like a candy store to me. Way too distracting. The GUI should not hamper you in your work.

>> It has clear text and controls and it is easy on the eye.
>Yeah, if you are legally blind.

Oh, go ahead and insult people. If you're talking about the yellow background, that's not the default. The default is a nice green color. Otherwise I don't see the big fuss about the GUI.

>> Also, if you don't like the default colors you can change them. There
>>are color schemes
>> to change all the colors in one go, or you can change parts.
>Why the ridiculous defaults then?

They may be ridiculous to you, but to me they seem to be reasonable defaults. I'll try and adres the points you made in another post.
The pink in some of the text boxes is actually quite nice and not nearly as intrusive as you might think, the yellow background is not default and is easily changed, the blue buttons are only for a few buttons in this application and they don't look bad on the grey background and the non-smoothed italic fonts look way better than the fonts in many of the window managers that are available on unix.

I'm not saying that the GUI is the best there is. I'm just saying you're way overreacting on this whole thing.

>> Try it before you diss it.
>I can send you my address via email if you would like to ship a SGI
>MIPS computer with the compiler suite here for me to test. Otherwise,
> no, I am not going to shell out a few grand just so that I can find out
> the same things I already saw when I looked at the screenshot.

Yeah, dissing the whole GUI based on one screenshot is so much more fun.