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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 26 17:50:15 -0700 2005 ------- "It is out of the question that Windows XPs Look and Feel is not everybody's favorite." Since when is XP the end-all-be-all interface? XP's interface is made popular by the success of XP, XP is not popular because of its interface. How presumptuous is it for an open source office suite to pick sides with one CLOSED platform? I also have a hard time believing that everyone who uses XP likes the interface. I use Apples every day and the UI makes me wanna vomit. Sure, you want to match the UI of the most popular platform, especially since you aim to replace MS-Office as quickly as possible. I understand that you'll have to appease people used to MS-Office. I still think you'll find Windows XP users as the minority in your user base. Aim high, but not so high you miss your target. Now, the technical merits of gradients in interfaces: If you want to look at the popularity (or lack there of) of gradients in interfaces, look online. I just ran through my daily list of sights and only one, anandtech, had gradients in its navigation wigits. This is one out of 27 web sights I browse daily. Each web sight has easily gone through the same loving process of design development as a GUI skin and yet a small minority choose to use gradients in anything but logo's and backgrounds; a handful use them in buttons or behind links. You may consider this apples and oranges, but think of this from a usability standpoint. People are assaulted by hundreds of different design paradigms a day surfing the web but people still get around. Talk about uncanny success in design by thousands and thousands of web authors! What better place to research UI development? What people want and what people get are often two different things. People get Mac OS, Windows XP, and OpenOffice 2.0. People want their web sights to look nice. Find me a web sight modeled after Windows XP. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
