While waiting for XP support....

[MisterX]

true but...

many pc users dont like the extra gui candy because it slows 
down things - or they go for a more compact gui theme... 

The simple Win2000 gui works great and it is as simple as it 
gets... Ugly? well maybe but not uglier than NeXTStep where it 
came from...

I just entered a BZ for the missing menu line below the menu
when you create a menu in windows. It's not just the line, 
but also the buttons placement too. 

The problem is that after you've created your stack in xp
or win2K gui, you have to revisit and change all the controls
that are too close to each other, they look ok in win2K but not
in xp, same with tab-buttons across win and osx for example. 

One solution would be to have the appearance manager in Rev
do it's job the way it's supposed to be... wouldn't that seem
like rev's solution to smooth GUI design across platforms in
the first place?

I just have a feeling that as Moft progresses, it's OS is 
going to be ever more locked with $$ or DRM and security
holes (MS just still doesn't get it)... So this might boost
the acceptance of linux interfaces... 

What then with the gui? GUI Themes are a weak spot imoho in 
rev if this is not respected from within... Open a stack in 
a themed OS and it probably wont grab the GUI patterns or 
sizes... Or will it?

just my 2 cents... I dont mean to be negative, just viewing
the future through a dubious eye ;) For one, i can see right
now that my Windows program's scrollbars are just not the 
same as revs windows... 

cheers
Xavier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 06:23
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: While waiting for XP support....
> 
> While we're still waiting for Rev to give the same level of 
> support for XP niceties they've given to OS X, here's a 
> glimpse of what's coming in
> 2006 (or 2007 or 2008 or whenever it actually ships):  a 
> whole site chock full o' articles and screen shots for Windows Vista:
> 
> <http://www.vistaarticles.com/>
> 
> Good news for us developers: its appearance is very much like 
> a slightly less candy-colored variant of OS X, so any graphic 
> treatments in your UIs will look much more at home on both 
> platforms....
> 
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Media Corporation
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