Zitat von Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Well, Lazarus is intended to develop commercial applications, not GPL
> utilities to be added to Gnome desktop.
Oops. Sorry, I didn't know.
> Commercial applications take
> care to provide their own specific look.
> If we look at some widely known multiplatform applications, we find that
> Red Hat created it's specific Bluecurve style, in order to avoid the
> native look of gtk, and provide uniform RedHat style to Gnome and Kde
> desktops.
... and RedHat achieved that, because the programs follow the system settings.
> OpenOffice, Mozilla, Gimp, Acrobat Reader (to some extent), Qt
> Designer, not to speak of players like Winamp or XMMS provide the same
> look in all platforms, with OpenOffice and Acrobat going to the point of
> using only their own fonts.
Mozilla is using gtk under linux.
OpenOffice descended from StarOffice, which look much more the same on all
platforms. With every new version OO is becoming more native looking on all
platforms.
Gimp - it invented gtk.
...
> Moreover multiplatform doesn't mean adding up all limitations of the
> supported platforms, but rather providing a consistent look and behavior
> in different platforms, with minimal programmer extra work.
We are trying to improve the LCL to minimize the programmer work. But we don't
have the man power of Graeme and Martin, so either be patient or use
fpGUI/msegui/qt/gtk/wxWidgets/... .
> Of course, I can take a different path for myself (fpGUI, msegui,
> MyOwnGui), but I feel belonging to Lazarus community, I see a lot of
> work being done, a lot of impressing achievements whenever the sacred
> cows of Delphi compatibility and widgetset compliance are forgotten,
> such as in component anchoring or in IDE conception. Therefore, backed
> by my personal experience, I feel it right to raise doubts on the
> priorities you clearly indicated, and humbly suggest that it could be
> the time to reconsider them with open mind.
Mattias
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