From: Alexandre P. <ale...@gm...> - 2005-03-01 10:59:51
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:04:54 +0000, Luke-Jr <lu...@da... > wrote: > If the users need to change programs, it isn't helping the transition pro= cess. > The existence of cross-OS programs allows users to change one program at = a > time, and while actually changing OS (dual-boot phase), run the same prog= rams > on both sharing the data. If ever you need. I don't remember myself using Inkscape/GIMP much in Windows just because I don't need them at work, while I extensively use them at home. The only valid point of having dual boot is that people need Windows to run applications they cannot run in GNU/Linux. I'm not sure that you have decent statistics about target group of dual boot users. We all judge by our own experience, while "the milage varies". According to my experience people don't dual-reboot all the time. They just happily use VMware. I'm not talking about teenage hackers who have time and nerves to swit=D1=81h between OSes. I'm talking about people who are serious enough to know they can spare some time for family and friends. I don't know of any application except maybe LICQ which supported different toolkits and became well-known and widely used for just that fact. Yes, you can use either Qt or Gtk based build of OpenOffice.org , if you really need that fancy desktop consistent look of widgets, and it doesn't help by portability much (OOo for Mac OS X please? :)). That said, I don't really see any point in further discussing _possibility_ of toolkit abstraction. If you are really keen of it, "use the source", Luke, and make it _reality_ :) Alexandre |