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On Wed, 24 May 2006 07:01:55 -0500, Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 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.
I fully agree with the above!
OTOH I think we live in the loosers camp, as the venodrs of these `bigger'
apps, are influenced by the `nmeds' of those imbeciles theat cannot use a pc
or application that is not skinnable. Not that I *want* to, but we have to
live with that.
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