From: Kevin S. <ke...@si...> - 2005-03-12 10:19:06
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Jason G. Ellison wrote: > I was referring to Adium devs getting feedback, not Gaim devs. It's > generally accepted that the order of UI grace is Linux, Windows, OSX. > Yahoo and AIM are both windows applications. Winamp, Mozilla, WMP, > etc have non-standard GUI. I agree that users will blame the > application (Gaim) before the support layer (GTK), and that should be > expected since the application is obvious and the support layer isn't. > I don't feel comfortable letting you say Windows is second in UI grace, given the number of applications (and most eerily notably Microsoft's own applications) that choose to ignore the UI design elements provided by the OS in favor of a separate toolkit. Think about how many Microsoft Programs don't even use standard UI widgets, and then go on to think about Mozilla, Gaim, Trillian, Winamp, and many others which also avoid the same. That definitely makes a point contrary to Windows having a graceful UI. And of course all the disagreement with different applications and UIs takes away from the grace on its own as well. And don't get me wrong, I am a Windows user. I spend my time in Linux with a CLI, and rarely a GUI. Windows is my GUI, but I'm not willing to claim it's any good. :) Kevin |