> (I for one, prefer Abi's XP to WIMP. It has the
> unfortunate side effect
> of screwing up sizing and never quite looking "in
> place." Case in
> point: Font sizes that would be small but readable
> in AIM, are
> incredibly tiny in GAIM/WIMP. Doesn't keep me from
> using it, but does
> prune my buddy list. :)
This thread is getting increasingly off-topic. Just
want to say that if it ain't in SF.net's bug tracker,
it ain't gettin' looked at... That said, I have no
problem using Gaim/Wimp, Gimp, and XChat on a daily
basis.
IMO, all Windows apps look out of place with respect
to each other. If you compare the huge ways that
Office's UI differs from Explorer, differs from
Notepad, differs from MFC apps, differs from VB apps,
differs from Borland apps, differs from how these
things look in Win2k, differs from Win98, ... you get
my drift.
Unlike MacOS (and to a somewhat lesser extent, Gnome)
there is no standard toolkit or interface guidelines
that is followed uniformly across the board. Even
internally to Microsoft's own products. Even within a
single OS revision.
Trying to "fit in" with a platform that has no real
concept of what "in" is is painfully difficult is by
definition impossible to get right.
Dom
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