Subject: Re: XP dialogs
From: Joaquín Cuenca Abela (cuenca@celium.net)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 04:12:36 CST
jrb@redhat.com wrote:
>
> One of the problems is that your internal widget set necessarily has to
> be a lowest-common denominator based one, which means you have no room
> for dealing with the peculiarities of a platform (let alone take
> advantage of some of its features.) We ended up special casing all the
> dialogs anyway for the GNOME frontend, totally negating any advantage
> you might otherwise get.
netscape 4.x series & AWT took this aproach too, and they end in the
same disaster...
I want to see Mike's code, but by now I think that this aproach is not
desirable.
Cheers,
-- Joaquin Cuenca Abela cuenca@celium.net
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