wondering about widgets

[Alex Rice]

On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 01:13  PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Win and Lunix/UNIX are emulated.  Win uses the Win95 appearance 
> standards,
> and Linux/UNIX uses Motif.
>
> I'm told that there's an interest in supporting native appearances on
> Windows XP, but do not know the satus -- Kevin?

Do you mean emulating whatever Windows theme is selected by the user in 
WinXP? That sounds cool. If you mean actually linking to the API and 
doing native widgets on XP- yikes - by the time it's finished, 
Microsoft will have introduced it's new application frameworks and it 
will be deprecated. Better to keep it emulated.

> With the many varied APIs among window managers in UNIX, it seems 
> unlikely
> Rev will be able to hook into them gracefully until they standardize.

Yeah... on the UNIX side it would be good to emulate KDE and GNOME, 
since those seem to be the two main desktop standards now. A lot of 
younger UNIX users, Linux users, probably don't even know what Motif is!

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com