On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:29:45 -0500 Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Redhat is right in this issue. A user, particularly a new user, should get a > consistent look and feel from ALL their apps by default. That is a basic UI > design DO. Different look, feel, behavior for each app is a MAJOR DON'T. So, > go one better than Redhat and make several different unified themes for > integrating gnome and kde instead of the one, but still (as with Redhat) > leave the option for people to break proper UI design and stick a different > look/feel on each app/class. Except that, even with the ingenious Red Hat tricks, the UIs of Gnome and KDE are _not_ identical; the underlying differences in behaviour can't be hidden except with rewriting. At some point I feel somebody is going to break cover and do one of two things: - supply a 'corporate' distribution with _one_ of those window managers, - fork KDE or Gnome or both to completely unify the behaviour. Either will spark off the mother and father of all howls (this one was merely a small child :) Also note that the Mandrake gtk2 theme, plus the Crux metacity theme, brings Gnome surprisingly close to the default (blue) KDE 3 theme ... Alastair
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