Open Office will have all sorts of users, many of them are individuals with different tastes. They have favorite OS, theme, etc. Some of them are old, some have disabilities. It's a vastly heterogeneous population with very different needs. Each user has his own Desktop Environment and the software needs to appear "right" in each and every computer. The look and feel may influence the buying decision.
On the other hand, SAP R/3 is an ERP used by companies. The company does not want to waste time and money training people for different widget sets. They want a single, consistent look across the entire company, it's an homogeneous userbase. Even if there are many OSes, the ERP must look exactly the same everywhere. The company may even need an odd widget like this one (from FLTK): http://www.fltk.org/documentation.php/doc-1.1/Fl_Dial.html That's my point. Different types of users, different needs. A software with a diverse userbase, like Open Office, needs to comply to every standard possible -- even if this costs a few features. A software with a specific user base, specially an enterprise core application, needs to implement every feature the user wants, even if this costs a few standards. 2008/1/29, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:50:11AM -0300, Alexsander Rosa wrote: > > OpenOffice needs to blend in the user's interface. > > SAP R/3 does not. > > Why not? They might get a way with it, but is it a hard requirement that > SAP > does not blend in? > > > Different users, different needs. > > _IS_ it a need? Or something convenient for the programmers they cna get > away with ? > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa Linux User #113925
