Hi, Thank you both for your answer.
Fred, what would be different between a windows-ish interface and a real windows interface? -- Philippe On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Fred Kiefer <fredkie...@gmx.de> wrote: > Philippe Bernery wrote: >> I asked the question sometimes ago (and got an answer) but did not >> follow the list for many times. >> I was wondering if someone was working on giving GNUstep application >> the look and feel of Windows application on Windows? >> If yes, what is the status of this project. If no, is there any plan >> to support it? > > You have to be more specific on what you are asking for. Getting a more > Windows look on Windows is something we are aiming at, but providing a > Windows feel is currently beyond the scope of our project. > Surely you will be able to redefine a few keys to get a behaviour that > is closer to the standard on Windows, but basically GNUstep programs > will still follow a logic that is closer to OpenStep than to the Windows > interface standards (as little as such standards exist). > > As for the Windows look you will have to wait for the next GNUstep > release cycle, as we will be focusing on themes once more. (Actually you > don't have to wait, you can just start to contribute now) Having more > themes callbacks in gui will allow more of the interface drawing to be > adjustable. > There was a proof of concept Windows theme, the code of which was send > to the mailing list again only a few months ago. Expect something > similar as a separate theme later on. Our main problem here is as always > that we don't have any developer that really focuses on Windows. We just > support it as people keep on asking for it. It would just be great to > have somebody contributing to GNUstep continuously on that platform. > > Fred > _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev