On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:52:08PM -0700, John McDermott wrote:
> Just asking that we not get rid of an approach that has value,
Yup, I agree - let's not abandon ideas that have value.
I.e., let's not abandon thoughts of allowing Ethereal to use the native
Windows widgets, as I definitely see that approach as having value:
1) greater familiarity for Windows users;
2) perhaps allowing users to run on 8-bit-color displays;
3) perhaps looking less butt-ugly, at least on some systems (for
some reason, on both my home NT 4.0 partition and my work W2K
desktop, the underlining of menu items looks *really weird*,
with too much space between the letter and the underline,
unlike the way it looks on UNIX/X;
4) perhaps eliminating other problems if they're due to
GTK+-on-Windows limitations.
(I cannot be argued out of thinking it's an approach worth looking at.
I can, at most, be argued into allowing Ethereal to continue to be built
using GTK+ on Windows if we also allow it to be built with native
widgets.)
