Windows titlebar question

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Dec 20 11:55:14 EST 2006


Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> because unlike Windows, Linux offers a tremendous
> variety of Window
> managers and a large amount of Themes for each Window
> manager.
> 
> This means that you can hack your Linux interface to
> pieces and back again, making your own, entirely
> individualistic GUI
> 
> which is not bad for something that is Free
> 
> while paying for an operating system that works on the
> "one-size fits all" theory seems a bit daft (unless,
> of course, you want to conform).

One man's conformance is another man's consistency:

<http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/togsprinciples.html>
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGHIDesign/chapter_5_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000353-TPXREF103>
<http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html>


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