Re: helping the user is not an error

2006-05-24 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed, 24 May 2006 07:01:55 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > On May 23, 2006, at 2:30 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > How much skin do you need? Or better how bare can you strip it? > > Who cares? The BIG problem with skinnable apps is that they never ever > *behave* consistently with the native U

Re: helping the user is not an error

2006-05-24 Thread Peter da Silva
On May 23, 2006, at 2:30 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote: How much skin do you need? Or better how bare can you strip it? Who cares? The BIG problem with skinnable apps is that they never ever *behave* consistently with the native UI (or, in the case of X11, with any of the native UIs). Even if you

Re: helping the user is not an error

2006-05-24 Thread Peter da Silva
On May 23, 2006, at 11:36 AM, David Cantrell wrote: Oh come on, you have to admit that making each client application resonsible for deciding how to draw its widgets is crazy. If 'twere up to me, X servers would be responsible for rendering at least the basics, with - perhaps the user being a