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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [Karbon14] Re: Re: Re: misc
From:       Dirk_Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger () sz-online ! de>
Date:       2002-10-29 9:00:18
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> > I honestly don't see how you got to that conclusion...
> > Creating a GUI is playing with what people know and expect and your
wishes

> Exactly, and they could expect that a powerfull graphic application
> looks and behaves like most other graphic applications. Don't tell me
> that kword development is different.

IMHO there is no common concept / behaiour between graphics applications.
So there is nothing to copy.
There is however, the need for _a_ graphic application to look and behave
like other _Office applications_, i.e. to the applications the graphic
application is "´bundled with".

If I wanted to judge purely be functionality instead of by style guid
compliancy, the possible alternatives are much more, and Karbon wasn't by
far the first choice.

> > add on top of that to create a better GUI. By using KOffice components
and

> Doesn't it lead to a status quo situation when you always rely on just
> what is there already?

It is easier to use what is already there. It is more known, so it is more
useable.
You have to have a really good reason to introduce a new GUI concept, and
you hae to be really good at marketing it, so that it become a new standard
component.
I don't think dockers are good enough for that.

Regards
Dirk





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