Subject: Re[2]: AbiWord Interface Review
From: Dmitriy Kostiuk (dk@fromru.com)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 12:22:54 CDT
Hello Andrew,
Saturday, August 11, 2001, 1:21:17 PM, you wrote:
>> > Currently AbiWord's icons are GNOME-ish; since
>> we're making everything
>> > else platform-based (widgets, etc.), we should
>> probably use
>> > Windows-standard icons on Windows. However, this
>> makes it a little
>> > less cross-platform/makes appearance platform
>> dependent, so this is
>> > debatable.
>>
>> I agree that there is a conflict of interest here,
>> with strong cases on both
>> sides.
AD> My opinion, wildly overpriced at 2 cents is that
the
AD> platform look&feel should be a higher priority than
AD> the application look and feel. Users are much more
AD> likely to use multiple apps on a single OS than
AD> AbiWord on multiple OSes and those in the latter
AD> category are more likely to be more adaptable
anyway.
AD> Also, GTK has been ported to Win32 so if we were
AD> doing a Windows GTK build then I would probably
expect
AD> that build to have the same icons as the *nix GTK
AD> build.
There is one more solution. If icons are stored
separately (not in
executable file) than user can change the application
look-and-feel to
resemble his favorite platform. May be that would be
the best way?
The basic icon set is one of GNOME style and you can
additionally
download some other icon packages and please yourself
by simply copying
its contents to a specified folder. And some other
users would prefer
to have it 'as is' because they like GNOME icons.
-- Best regards, Dmitriy mailto:dk@fromru.com
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