On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:45 PM, tim Rowledge wrote:

> Now that I don't think I can agree with entirely. Yes, for ordinary  
> usage using host style is beneficial. For enhanced UI designs I'm  
> going to assert (because I'm a big bossy noisy person with no mild  
> opinions) that you really need to almost forget whatever your host  
> OS does because they are *all* crap. Every one of them. All of them  
> have some good points, and all of them have many more bad. Don't  
> get me started on menubars. Really. If it were possible to write  
> down the most suitable curses about menubars in the original  
> pictograms, the baked clay would melt.

True enough. But at least I've come to terms with the Mac UI. I know  
how to use it efficiently.

So, why should I trade one bad UI (which I happen to know how to use)  
for another (which I don't know how to use). To use both interfaces,  
I'm forced to become proficient in two different systems--and I'm  
forced to mentally jump back and forth between the two systems as I  
work. That just doesn't seem like a good use of anyone's brain-cycles.

I'll check out wxSqueak. I've only heard about it in relation to the  
upcoming 3.9 release, can it run on 3.8 too?

-Rich-