On Oct 15, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Benoit St-Jean wrote:

> A decent UI is a UI
> that looks native...  One to which the user can relate
> to.  That looks like a Mac on a Mac, like Windows on
> Windows, etc.
I would replace look by feel. I don't mind the graphical look of the  
app on mac, or windows, or linux. To take mac for example, you have  
various types of GUIs. Look at iTunes, Mail, Safari (the same is  
happening with the new microsoft office look and classic windows  
look...) they all have 3 different looks, some are intented to be one- 
window-only, others multi-windows ... The common factor to all OSX  
apps is the feel, the behavior. command+Q quits my app, command+W  
closes the current window. Take command+C, command+V , they work the  
same in squeak and my other apps, so squeak integrates (feels) with  
the other apps.
The windowing of Squeak can be weird, especially since most window  
managers handle windows separately. But I just need to launch Eclipse  
to see that problem again in a more "mainstream" technology...

But I was taught programming with Smalltalk, so I'm not really  
subjective. I see everything else from a Smalltalk perspective.

Yann