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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE - own look-and-feel
From:       <gary () stan ! wavetop ! net>
Date:       1998-02-24 16:22:01
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I agree that KDE should stand out from Win95/Mac/etc in it's look (and
functionality!), but please... no left-aligned tabs by default (perhaps a
configurable option).  I can't think of a left-aligned tab interface that
has survived (if I'm wrong... let me know :) )

Speaking of looks... a sure fire way to attract newbies to using KDE would
be to make it VERY PRETTY.  I'm running KDEb3 here on my desk at work and
I've changed all the icons to the Afterstep hi-rez icons.  Every single
person that comes by my desk says "COOL!  What's that!  Where do I get
it?".  Then they find out how functional and intuitive it is... and the
next thing you know win95 disappears from their desktop... 

Just my 2 cents.

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Gary Nichols		gary@stan.wavetop.net
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Gunter Ohrner wrote:

> Bart Dorsey wrote:
> > Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> > > Implementing these would involve a massive coding effort for no functional
> > > or useful gain. In fact the coding effort would be far more usefully
> > > directed to improving the HTML widget, adding Javascript and squashing
> > > bugs.
> > I would much prefer seeing some more functionality in the areas that KDE
> > is missing functionality that arguing about widget styles.. because in
> > the end, does it MATTER what a button looks like? if you can click it
> > and the button does what's it's supposed to, then this is the point...
> > be very careful where your priorities go with KDE, Microsoft makes a big
> > mistake like this with it's products, they worry more about "look and
> Okay, okay...
> I'll wait until KDE reached at least version 1.0.
> I can admit when you say that stability is more important than the look,
> but this IS the "Look-And-Feel"-ML, and not a
> "We-Increase-KDE's-Stability"-ML...
> But let's wait and watch KDE aproaching version 1.0. Maybe we should
> first try to get a (nearly) perfectly working system and then we can try
> to improve its look.
> 
> But I've still the opinion that KDE should *NOT* look excactly like
> another already existent GUI.
> The idea of left-aligned "tabs" in dialogs instead of top-aligned, for
> example, is very good. Although it might look a bit unusual when you see
> it for the first time it is MUCH less confusing than a two-rowed stack
> of top-aligned "tabs"...
> 
> Gunter Ohrner
> 
> -- 
> ***********************************************************************
> An alle Netscape-Navigator/Communicator-Nutzer:
> Habt ihr schonmal
>   about:mozilla
> als URL eingegeben???
> 
> 

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