Re: gtk icewm?

[raster redhat com]

On 18 May, robert havoc pennington shouted:
->  
->  On Mon, 18 May 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
->  > 
->  > > when comparing menu popup speeds to say, gtk.. but IMO icewm is
->  > > currently too win95ish for Gnome.
->  > 
->  > I believe that arguing on the basis of how similar something is to
->  > Windows 95 is wrong.  We should be basing our arguments on the
->  > capabilities and the benefits.
->  > 
->  
->  Yes! This is an excellent point. Just because the overall Windows OS is
->  kind of yucky doesn't mean we can't steal shamelessly from their
->  highly-paid UI researchers. We should copy Windows, Mac, NeXT, X, and
->  everything else we can think of to create a nice, familiar synthesis with
->  the best of each. In a real sense Different == Bad when it comes to look
->  and feel.

again a misnoma. different is neither bad nor good - it depends what
new stuff you have. if beinf different was bad a GUi would have never
been invented - terminals wouldnt exits.,. we'd be uing computers with
switches and led's as output. Being diferent and having the guts to try
somehitng new drives innovation and features. don't be afraid of being
different. Embrace it.

The ramannt wave of "lets COPY a commercial GUI" that is spreading
through the linux world is rather sad - it shows that there is little
imagination and any form of resarche or willingness to branch off and
at the very least TRY and do better. It is this effor of trying to do
better and probably in the process look different and act differently
that is goign ot differetiate GNOME from KDE and MacOs and windows etc.
It is goign to be what attracts people to it - a GUi that has FRESH
ideas - not just the old ones recycled. This may involve bastardisting
current ideas and meshing them - but do nto restrict ourselves to what
has alreday been done.

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