> Actually, it is.  It's not unreasonable to say that almost "all"
> computers run windows.  Windows has over 90% of the market, so most
> people will feel that windows style is more intuitive because it's what
> they're used too, that doesn't mean it's better, but it is more
> intuitive.

Actually it isn't.  What you are really saying is its more "familiar".  It is
certainly not more intuitive.

It wasn't until Win95 that Microsoft added the ambiguous "X" to the upper-right
but kept their legacy left-side "window-menu" to this day.  This ambiguity is
less-intuitive.

Squeak is a leader, not a follower, so lets not dumb it down to "follow"
Microsoft's mistake of ten years ago, especially just before Microsoft releases
"Looooonghorn" (say it correctly, with that cowboy accent) which may have an
entirely different look itself; which would prove to the "masses" forced to
accept it that, once again, Microsoft is a "leader" in user-interface design.

> The real question is what's the goal of LookEnhancements, if it's to
> make squeak prettier to make it more popular, then it needs to try and
> look more like windows, plain and simple, because that's the target
> market, that's where "most" programmers are.  If the goal is to look
> cool, then make it look like Mac, it's much prettier, but that isn't
> where the programmers are.

Programmers don't need Squeak to look like Windows.  End-users using Word and
Excel in corporations or Grandma who got a Dell pre-bloaded w/ Microsoft stuff
for Christmas using Outlook and IE, *may* feel more comfortable with basic
window-operations in Squeak were they to use it.

But how long before these type of users, in Squeak and suddenly away from their
sprawling two-dimensional spreadsheets and 100' long Word scrolls, feel
uncomfortable with Squeak anyway, which doesn't do any of those things as well
(rightly so).

Merely giving them icons for *window-management* that look like MS Windows is
so insufficient that, in fact, it is probably misleading.  In other words, it
is very quickly *counter-intuitive* because they may be initially fooled into
the Windows mindset, but quickly discover that nothing else works the way they
expect.