Re: [lazarus] Delphi incompatibilities in TForm

[Giuliano Colla]

Lord Satan ha scritto: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:58:30 +0200 "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forcing all GTK applications to always use the theming colors is *not* always the developers desire. In this case the developer has the option to use an application specific appname.gtkrc file to override the standard theme and use his own. This is hardly a solution. What real people in real world needs is to give the right appearence to widgets, in order to create user friendly applications. This means dynamically changing colors, image backgrounds, and whatever is needed to convey the right information in the most intuitive way. For the same reasons, buttons and other widgets are often of different size and shape, and widget style and theme goe to hell. A default theme is a goot thing for beginners, just to provide them a consistent starting point, but as they proceed and learn, they override the theme more and more frequenly, until nothing is left. The sacred cow of Widget Style can be reasonable for default values, but nothing more. Besides my company needs, which doesn't give a damn about themes and widget style, of all the commercial Delphi application I've seen, and I've seen quite a lot, there's none which sticked to any known widget style, but all of them were using colors, shapes and bitmaps consistent with company style, and application needs, which was neither Qt, nor Windows, nor, God forbid, Gtk. Just my penny of wisdom, late in the night. Giuliano _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives