While waiting for XP support....

[MisterX]

Hi Richard,

Yep, Microsoft licensed the NS gui from Next for Windows 95...
If you wondered where that familiar look came from ;)

The BZ is 3039... Thanks for the vote! 

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 07:03
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: While waiting for XP support....
> 
> MisterX wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> Win2K came from NeXTStep?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> What's the BZ#?  I'll vote for it.  I don't mind seeing OS 
> X-specific additions as long as Apple comes through on their 
> end and co-markets or does something else to return the 
> favor, but Win-specific things are at least as critical; in 
> terms of marketshare, about an order of magnitude more so.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> In a chat several weeks ago Kevin mentioned some plans to do 
> cool stuff 
> with Vista.    That's nifty and all, but won't do a thing for 
> my sales 
> for more than a year.
> 
> I sure would like to see Windows given the respect it 
> deserves in terms of appearance details....
> 
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>   Richard Gaskin
>   Managing Editor, revJournal
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