Re: Windows look and feel

[Philippe Bernery]

Well, this is what I thought about.
I think having the menu in the window is the first thing to have, then
if theming is good, everything should go fine.
Anyway, what you all wrote is good news, I was afraid that GNUstep
application would still look like an OpenStep application, I mean with
the menu on the left outside the window.

About the Services menu, wouldn't it be better to have it in the
systray menu rather than in the menu in the window? What do you think
about that?

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Gregory John Casamento
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Windows is hardly a homogenous environment itself.  I think a windows theme
> that is "Close enough" will suffice in most cases.
>
> Think about Java apps or even iTunes and such on Windows.   They don't
> really blend, but they do make enough changes to "work with" the
> environment.   I think that's really what we should shoot for with respect
> to a "Windows" theme/look & feel.
>
> Later, GC
>
> Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
> # GNUstep Chief Maintainer
>
> ________________________________
> From: Fred Kiefer <address@hidden>
> To: Philippe Bernery <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 9:22:33 AM
> Subject: Re: Windows look and feel
>
> Philippe Bernery wrote:
>> Fred, what would be different between a windows-ish interface and a
>> real windows interface?
>
> I would draw the difference at the point where all the control elements
> get displayed with naive Windows function calls. Many Windows
> applications do that themselves and they look out of style. This is also
> the case with GNUstep applications on Windows no. When using native
> drawing code, we could improve on that, but there surely will be places
> where the available Windows controls don't fit our needs.
>
> Still, even with native colours, native control drawing, menus inside
> the window and what ever other adoption will be possible, I would
> expect that it will always be possible to tell a ported GNUstep
> application from one that was developed for Windows.
>
>
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