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On Tuesday 19 November 2002 11:47, Jesse Kline wrote:
> I don't see a problem with this. Linux does have a very inconcistent look,
> I can see how many people don't like this.
just like windows and mac have apps that don't look like the rest of the
desktop? hrm. obviously, X has had a much worse time of it historically, but
it isn't up against perfectly homogenous alternatives.
well, in the old days of the Mac, yes. but newer releases of MacOS (even prior
to X) had apps that weren't consistent.
> I myself always try to have some
> concistency between my gtk 1.x/gtk 2.x/QT/etc. themes. That way things look
> more uniform and I like that. I think it would be nice if someone made a
> theme for GTK/QT/Mozilla/OpenOffice, etc. so just about everything looked
> the same.
and a few people have (RH among them, Geramik as another example). for those
that want all their apps to look identical, great. but all the emphasis on
these unified themes is completely misguided IMO:
> As for the interfaces that was the big selling point for Macs for
> many years. While you had to relearn everything when you switched DOS
> applications, if you knew one MacOS app you pretty much knew them all.
the trick wasn't that they looked the same, the trick was that they WORKED the
same. putting a lick of paint on everything doesn't solve the real problem at
all: you need to learn different menus, dialogs and usage patterns for GNOME,
KDE, Open/StarOffce, etc...
i'd rather use all KDE / GNOME / gtk+ / Qt / Motif / Whatever apps and get a
consistent interface than have a mishmash of interfaces and a common look. at
least with each component looking slightly different, it's immediately
apparent to the user why things are different in the menus and dialogs: they
are different types of software!
in fact, hide the fact that there are differences cosmetically and just wait
for the "it's so inconsistent!" cries to erupt just as, if not more, loudly.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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