A New Look and Feel for Squeak
Stefan Matthias Aust
sma at 3plus4.de
Sun Jul 2 08:56:17 UTC 2000
At 11:38 02.07.00 +1000, Karl Goiser wrote:
>Proposition: Either do something radically different from current user
>interfaces or use those interfaces.
Can you explain why you think these are the only alternatives? As I tried
to explain, I think, for user acceptance, it's sufficient to come up with a
meta-look and feel that has the essence of the usual platforms UIs (Mac,
Windows, KDE, Gnome)
>You are right. But what if you don't implement the entire interface
>natively? Just the basic bits that everybody wants :-), like windows and
>dialogues and data entry. With the rest, you can supply a Morphic
>rectangle which blits into part of a native window.
Which is the way to go IMHO. But not for something completely different
but for the essential look. I don't give too much on Tim's
rant. Parcplace might have failed but Sun successed with Swing.
bye
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Stefan Matthias Aust // Bevor wir fallen, fallen wir lieber auf
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