Re: Look and Feel

[Randi Joseph]

Hello Everyone,

I think that it is very important that certain aspects of the 
interface be customizable. In particular, a static/floating menubar 
option and left/right. Lets face it, left scrollbars might be 
intuitive to old NeXT users, but it is absolutely foreign to 99% of 
the world. It seems sensible to some degree for left-handed users, but 
flat out disconcerting for right-handed people.

Themeability is not enough.

Apple spends millions of dollars getting its interface right. Even 
Steve Jobs who manages to force a single button mouse down our throats 
realized that an made the change.

Critical issues like this must be very well thought through before 
implementation.


That aside, I must say that I am VERY dissapointed to see KDE and 
GNOME take such a lead over a GNUSTEP based environment.

It will be easier to sell (GNUSTEP/Objective-C) to developers if some 
of apple's well thought out interface ideas are adopted.

-randi