Subject: Re: XP dialogs
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 12:48:11 CST
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 04:34:58PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 11:24:20AM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > I'm sorry, I strongly disagree. Star Office took this approach. It really
> > hurts performance adds to bloat and does not help portability. Just
> > changing from Motif to gtk is estimated to take years and those widget
> > sets are pretty similar I'm told.
>
> I'm sorry, but I think you are misinformed. Staroffice does not use
> Motif. It uses its own ugly internal widget set that doesnt fit in
> anywhere. This is a disasterous approach - of course there will be
> bloat if every application has its own widget set. This is what
> mozilla did and look what happened.
>
> What we're sugesting is abstracting the native widget sets internally.
>
Actually, what you're suggesting is what Mozilla did. They don't have
in internal widget set, they have a layer on top of widget sets to
allow the widget code never to think about the widget set details.
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