Niall Kavanagh wrote:
>
> One nice thing about Windows is the predominance of Microsoft's widgets,
> giving applications a nice uniform look and feel. Though lately I've seen
> a disturbing trend of skinnable applications that make desktops look as
> hokey as anything I've seen on a Enlightenment/Gnome/KDE/Motif desktop.
> Skinning an MP3 player is cool, but playing with the look and feel of
> widgets in productivity applications seem rather... counter-productive.
>
Of course, some of us view this (the MS uniform look & feel) as a
drawback - I personally don't work the way MS thinks I should. one of
the great things about Linux (& Unix) is there is no native UI -
everything is a shell & I can choose the shell that works the way I
do!
--
jeff smith
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thought for the day: Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse
than you thought they would.
The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that
much.
-- Augustine
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