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On May 23, 2006, at 2:30 PM, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > How much skin do you need? Or better how bare can you strip it? Who cares? The BIG problem with skinnable apps is that they never ever *behave* consistently with the native UI (or, in the case of X11, with any of the native UIs). Even if you replicate the native UI perfectly in the most efficient skin in teh world, it's still a separate implementation and will differ in maddeningly subtle and nauseatingly unsubtle ways. I want a GUI where the server does such a fast and efficient and user-friendly job of rendering user-configurable widgets directly, and only passes complete operations back to the application, so that people who write skinnable apps for it are lynched. The horrible thing is, the closest thing we have to that is a web-browser, and people actually LIKE web pages that micromanage the UI in horrid and incompatible ways. (hate-users.com, ISAGN)
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