Karl Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about the MetaCard engine for OS X?
> Is MetaCard for OS X going to introduce a new Look and Feel setting for Aqua?
Although MacOS X is based on Unix, Scott will propably have to do a
complete port of the MetaCard display engine... which is not an easy
task and may take a while... remember: There is only one Unix
look-and-feel in MetaCard: Motif; no Gnome or KDE or anything. He could
carbonize the Classic MacOS engine, but that would not introduce the
Aqua look-and-feel.
IMHO MacOS X will come with several themes preinstalled and new ones
following soon... Apple has started to add things like that to the
Classic MacOS, and Kaleidoscope is such a success that they won't miss
to beat Microsoft to it. If it does not make it in the first version, it
will definetely be in the second one scheduled to come 3 to 12 months
after the initial release.
OTOH the MetaCard engine does not use the OS routines to draw controlls,
but it uses its own to fake it... exceptionally well! Sometimes even
better than the original OS... and you can adapt them freely to your own
tastes... and you can use any look-and-feel on any platform. But if you
would switch themes (or skinns or whatever they call it) in the OS, the
controlls in MC will stay just the same... and every new theme would
need another reimplementation from MC.
This takes us to the real question: What is more important, nifty theme
support or free customisation within MC and a common look on all
plattforms?
Regards
Rüdiger
P.S.: It would be a great step to have a command line version of MC for
MacOS X, so we could run CGIs and stuff.
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