On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:51:10 +0200
"Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seeing that you are a windows person.... Open Windows Media Player.
> Any version from v8 onwards. How native does that look or feel
> compared to the rest of the OS. So why may Microsoft get away with it
> and others not? fpGUI in its invinite state looks a lot more native
> that Windows Media Player (I've got WMP 8 infront of me).
Take a look at any other Music/Video-Player. They all started out trying to
mimic some kind of HiFi/Video equipment and users want them to look fancy. Why
do you think are there millions of mplayer or xine skins? Same for xmms. That's
all because they are Media-Apps and used by Joe Sixpack all day long (the same
reason why every crappy shareware app comes with it's own skin). So the
Mediaplayer is by far the worst example for an application that does not use
the native widget set. Are there any serious apps using the WMP widgetset?
No? Thought so.
I can see that for your purpose a non native widget set may be The Best
Thing(tm). But for Lazarus as a whole the current practice of using native
widgetsets is IMHO much better. Being able to achieve a native look and feel on
the supported plattforms is just great.
If the user has the choice between native and non native most will choose the
native one. The same reason why KDE-guys use mostly QT apps and Gnome ones use
mostly GTK apps.
Btw are there any screenshots or even better a working example of fpGUI in
action? All I know about it is what I read on this list but I have no clue what
it looks like and how it feels.
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