LC 7: Variant Windows 7 themes on end-user PCs may make your app appear with a Unix appearance

[Richmond]

On 30/12/14 14:04, Bernard Devlin wrote:
> I thought I'd rename the subject, as my previous message where this was
> discussed referred to the IDE not saving preferences.  However, what this
> has eventually turned out to be may have wider repercussions than just the
> IDE.
>
> http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14315
>
> I'm concluding that since no-one else but me appears to have run into this
> problem, that very few people must alter the appearance of a Windows
> desktop background to remove visual clutter.
>
> Bernard
> _______________________________________________
>

That is 'pips' as my children used to say before they grew up: and it
is pips compared with the problem facing anybody developing for Linux
where a "thousand flowers bloom".

If you start worrying about your end-users' desktop furniture you will
spend your life in hell.

This is why I DON'T used buttons and so on: I set up a button they way I 
want it and then
import a snapshot of it, so that it will appear consistently wherever it 
is deployed.

You can never be "the man for all men" (sexism aside), and you can waste 
weeks
trying to be that; as I am rigidly monogamous (and, when I pause to 
think about
things, my partner is female) I make an effort to ensure that work I do 
looks
exactly the same wherever it is deployed; that being less effort than 
worrying myself
sick aboput how the thing is going to look on all the possible OS+window 
manager+desktop
combinations it might appear on (ReactOS with KDE, anyone????).

Richmond.