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List:       kde-look
Subject:    RE : Re: KDE - own look-and-feel
From:       MATHIEU BELLEVILLE <"/CN=MATHIEU BELLEVILLE/G=MATHIEU/S=BELLEVILLE/" () avions ! aero
Date:       1998-02-20 13:24:01
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>G.Ohrner@t-online.de said:
>> So please give me a reason why KDE should look like W95. :-) 
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Personnaly, I don't really care, so long as buttons are recognizable.
I do not like Win95 or NT (that's why I use Linux), but the look does not
bother me.
When I see a screenshot, I may confuse W95 and fvwm95-2, but not W95 and KDE.

But there is a point I'd like to raise: developpers should not copy the
mistakes of W95.
An example of that is the find file dialogue.
As it is a direct copy of W95's, it as the same defaults: it is not obvious
that each criterion on each tab of the dialog is processed simultaneously with
AND (file name pattern AND in given subtree AND given date AND given content).

The design of the find tool in MacOs is much better IMO.
You have on the dialog one tab with the default criterion (file name patern),
which you can change, and three buttons ('search', 'cancel' and 'add
criterion'). Pressing 'add criterion' adds a line in the dialog, whith a new
search criterion. You can then choose the type of criterion in a pop-up list
box (name pattern, subtree, content, date, ...). The result is the complete
argument to the find command. 

Maybe it is possible to add a 'OR' facility, but I have no idea of how it could
be done.


Have a nice week-end...

Mathieu Belleville

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