On Fri 2003-02-21 at 10:01:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2003 9:50 am, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 15:44, Bret Baptist wrote: > > > do. "Windows handles color changes without a problem." The only way to > > > > I find this ironic. Windows is actually *really bad* in this very area. > > The problem is they change their appearance too often. There are lots of > > apps which were too lazy to be coded properly and just hard-coded a > > Win98-style appearance into themselves. These now look hideously out of > > place under WinXP, unless you give up XP's new-style interface and make > > it into Win2000 :). There's even some old apps that still look like > > Windows 3.1! By no means do all of these respond correctly to theme > > changes, either. Windows isn't a very good model for how to this (or, > > indeed, anything else :>) > > So we shouldn't work to be *better* than windows?
Oh, come on! He never said anything like that.
He simply said that it was an ironic choice to compare against
Microsoft Windows in this matter.
Bye,
Benjamin.
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