On 2006-09-04 13:01:33 -0400 Andrew Sveikauskas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, it seems the situation is like this: > * Faction A loves GNUstep for its NeXT goodness > * Faction B thinks GNUstep is out of place and should play nice > with other > desktops. > * Probably some people believe both are true. True. > So, my thinking was, why not offer a few NSUserDefaults to appease B > above? > This would include: Agreed. > 1. An option to have NSMenus appear within a window. It would mix > better > with an existing X or Win32 desktop and would also help solve the > "GNUstep > doesn't work with focus follows mouse" problem. We will need to fake a main window when no documents are opened to do that. > 2. An option that makes all NSPanels visible regardless of what > application > has focus. This would solve the other half of the "GNUstep doesn't > work with > focus follows mouse" problem. The problem with this is that it will increase screen clutter. > 3. An option to not show the app icon. Agreed. > These three options alone would probably make some people complain > less. But > then I realized that, options to tweak the UI already exist, yet > people still > complain about the "lack" of Mac-like menus, etc. Maybe said people > do not > read documentation, or maybe they are not well documented, but, it > does raise > an important point: there needs to be a very clear, intuitive, > idiot-proof > way for new users to change UI styles. Things will improve once "WildMenus" and theming is integrated into GUI. > So my thought was very simple. It might be nice if gnustep-gui, upon > running > an application for the first time, popped up a panel that asked the > user what > kind of interface style they would want. There they could click away > (select > NeXT Mac or Win style menus, don't display the app icon, etc.) > instead of > being completely turned off by a program that doesn't fit their WM or > desktop. Agreed, KDE does that and it is very nice. IMHO, there should some predefined themes that fixs in with the underlying system. Charles -- "Never make any mistaeks." (Anonymous, in a mail discussion about to a kernel bug report.)
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