[plug] FW: [Mono-list] Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE Linux (fwd)

[James Devenish]

In message <20031105091640.GE5442 at erdos.home>
on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:16:40PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> My point was that it would be nice not to have to bother. Macintosh
> and Windows programs generally manage to look fairly consistent
> without having to resort to fiddling with themes for two different GUI
> toolkits.

I take it that you don't do GUI programming! (Apples to oranges
comparison.) If you run X11 under Mac OS, you will have the GNOME/ KDE
problem. If anything, the reason Mac and Windows programmes have
consensus on the base appearance is that there is ONE system layer for
drawing buttons, windows, etc., and all the toolkits are at least a
level above that. With X11, you start from a much lower level. For the
purposes of this argument, GNOME and KDE are at about the same level as
Aqua/Windows, so try replacing "GNOME" with "Mac OS" and "KDE" with
"Windows" and see just how much "fiddling with themes for two different
GUI toolkits" you have to do.


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