-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 February 2003 08:29 pm, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > On Fri 2003-02-21 at 10:01:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Friday 21 February 2003 9:50 am, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 15:44, Bret Baptist wrote: > > > > do. "Windows handles color changes without a problem." The only way > > > > to > > > > > > I find this ironic. Windows is actually *really bad* in this very area. > > > The problem is they change their appearance too often. There are lots > > > of apps which were too lazy to be coded properly and just hard-coded a > > > Win98-style appearance into themselves. These now look hideously out of > > > place under WinXP, unless you give up XP's new-style interface and make > > > it into Win2000 :). There's even some old apps that still look like > > > Windows 3.1! By no means do all of these respond correctly to theme > > > changes, either. Windows isn't a very good model for how to this (or, > > > indeed, anything else :>) > > > > So we shouldn't work to be *better* than windows? > > Oh, come on! He never said anything like that. > > He simply said that it was an ironic choice to compare against > Microsoft Windows in this matter.
I think the person commenting on Windows was missing the point. If I'm in an app, and the tool bar buttons are 3D (Win95 style) rather than flat (WinXP style), is that going to really catch my attention? Maybe a bit. If, instead, however, the Win95-like ones were grey and the WinXP ones where blue, then I'd notice something DEFINATELY wasn't right. This is GNU/Linux's problem. Color. Not theming... color. -Tim - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Enterprise Open Source Journal: http://www.ofb.biz ================================================================ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Vuw7K37Cns9gJ0gRArapAJ9dsLgdGU9BHzDMomjsQKPkU0pcRwCdGmyC ZoV3pkIXZnfdH9oF5USIRW8= =PmgC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
