Re: Look and Feel

[Alex Perez]

Michael Thaler wrote:
> On Monday 14 February 2005 14:47, you wrote:

> I don't think GNUstep should clone Aqua, not at all. But GNUstep could follow 
> some of the ideas of the MacOS UI (not the style, ideas related to 
> usability). Or GNUstep could follow some ideas from GNOME or KDE. Reinventing 
> everything doesn't always make sense and the current Nextstep UI is also not 
> perfect and can certainly be enhanced.

It's NOT "just for the sake of distinctiveness". Read the damn UI 
guidelines and you'll actually understand why. They're posted at 
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/OpenStepUserInterfaceGuidelines.pdf
and you clearly have some very poorly informed opinions regarding why 
certain things are done certain way. I'm not going to waste my breath 
explaining them here, when they're far more eloquently and clearly 
explained in the UIG document I posted above.

Also, can you please tell me several *SPECIFIC* ideas from GNOME or KDE 
which are original to GNOME or KDE (IE which did not come from somewhere 
else)? And then can you whittle that tiny list down to the things you 
think we should actually consider implementing? ;-)