On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:32:45 +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote about Re: [Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?:
> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > With the added downside that it's far from certain that you'll ever > > be able to make fpGUI look native on all platforms: one of > > its explicit design goals was to look exactly the same on all > > platforms, which is contrary to the Lazarus design goal. > > There is nothing bad about an widgetset with the same look&feel on > all platforms. Do you mean like the original Mozilla? ... :-) > IMO only its *use* is restricted to specific applications. When I use a specific desktop platform, I want any and all applications to integrate with the other applications. This means I want native look-and-feel everywhere. [snip] > IMO just the IDE were a good example for an application that *should* > look&feel almost the same on multiple platforms, to multi-platform > application developers. The IDE developers should be freed from > widgetset/component specific problems. Well, when I use Lazarus under GNOME, I want it to look like any other Gtk application. Consequently, the current practice of using the Gtk widgets is just fine. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ======================================================================= [email protected] (David W Noon) ======================================================================= -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
