Re: new user question

[Andrew Ferrier <andrew junk new-destiny co uk>]

On 2002-08-23 at 15:15 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:

> > I know the Windows port has been going through some trials and
> > tribulations recently (ah-hem) [ps: your work is very much
> > appreciated by two people I know Hans, please keep it up], but
> > have there ever been any thoughts towards making it more
> > Windowsy?
>
> I could look at the state of themes in GTK2 for windows Tor
> said ages ago that he could not be bothered getting themes to
> work with GTK1.x when he knew it was going to be overhauled.
> Depending on the status of GTK2 it might be possible to get a
> theme that looks more like Redmond.

OK, that wasn't actually quite what I meant --- I wasn't asking
for it to _look_ Windowsy. No doubt there are those that would
want that, but I think having it look almost Windowsy but not
quite would be more dangerous than as it is now. I was talking
more about the comment I went on make below about OLE etc ---
i.e. behaviour not look.

> > In particular with reference to this discussion, what about
> > adding in OLE support (or whatever ActiveNonsense Microsoft
> > call it this week) to make this stuff more familiar to novices?
> > I guess that would be non-trivial... anyone any thoughts?
>
> It sounds nasty.  I dont know what plans if any Abiword have
> but i know they would have plenty of ideas on the subject
> seeing as they are among the few Gnome projects that run on
> Windows as a well. (i am really looking forward to when Chema
> has time to remove all the gnome dep's from gnome print and
> Dom adds SVG support, something both Dia and Abiword will
> benifit from I expect).

Just curious, not something I particularly want, but it would
create more Windows integration.

> I already use Pine (am trying to configure mutt nicely and
> then start using it instead or maybe i will try Evolution).
> But there is probably some hidden option buried somewhere in
> Micrsofts prodcuts that allows you to turn of the HTML.  I
> will really have to put together a tutorial on how to turn
> off HTML in various mailers, i am always asking people to do
> it.

There is in Outlook Express I know. But if I remember rightly
it still renders stuff in a proportional font or something
stupid, so it still isn't 'quite right'.

-- 
Andrew Ferrier

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