Subject: Re: XP dialogs
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 04:20:01 CST
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 11:12:36AM +0100, Joaqu?n Cuenca Abela wrote:
> 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.
So the logical conclusion is to not be cross-platform.
Actually, our current approach isn't really that bad. We basically
have a portable backend with different frontends. The problem is that
we always sync the frontends and end up with lowest common denominator
anyway.
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