One of the things that irritated me about GTK was I could find no way of changing the font on buttons and labels.
This has meant I will probably go with KDE and QT for any projects. Although I like GTK more in many ways. On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 11:37, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 20:05, Nick Rout wrote: > > hard to say what else is actually new [in Gimp 2.0], and what is > > just a neater, more modern look to a great program. > Making a GUI look "neat" is quite hard :) The easiest way is to follow > the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/ > which is what the Gimp developers have done. It is this application of > the HIG that is responsible for the quite subtle usability improvements > in The GIMP 2.0. > > The following is an attempt to quell the flames that are sure to follow > me mentioning the GNOME-HIG. > The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines do have quite a few > GNOME-specific parts, but most of the guide is desktop-neutral. > For example, the labels used on buttons and the suggested spaces > between widgets are not specific to any widget set; you can find > many equivalent guidelines in the Java-HIG, which has a number > of the same authors (thanks, Sun). > > * I am not trying to say that KDE has lower or higher usability > than GNOME. > * I am not trying to say that GNOME has lower or higher usefulness > than KDE. > * I am not trying to imply that The GIMP is part of GNOME (it is > not, if you are wondering). > * I AM suggesting that applying the GNOME-HIG is a good way to > improve the look and feel of many GUI-based applications. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Regards, Zane Gilmore (Linux nerd since 1998) ____________________________________________________ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.:- A.C.Clark ____________________________________________________
