Re: [TCLCORE] REQ: Update TIP 23 for MacOS X

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

David,

On Thursday, Apr 1, 2004, at 17:08 Australia/Sydney, David N. Welton  
wrote:

> Isn't "aqua" a name that they could potentially change (leaving us
> looking out of date) when they restyle things sooner or later?

Aqua is the official name of the Mac OS X UI look & feel

	http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/ 
OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGPartIII/chapter_9_section_1.html

it is used independently from the several toolkit choices implementing  
that L&F.

I don't think the name is likely to change, but who knows. The OS has  
had a standard option to style widgets in gray instead of blue for a  
while, and this "graphite" style is still called aqua.

FWIW, there is a precedent in Tk for the use of "aqua" to identify the  
Mac OS X native UI

	$ wish
	% tk windowingsystem
	aqua

>  Would the name of the toolkit make sense?

We currently use an API collection known as "Carbon", but what is  
considered part of this is not very clear and more likely to change  
than the UI IMO, I'm not sure that this is really a well defined  
toolkit in your sense.

Cheers,

Daniel

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