Not to be negative, but I'm starting to agree with Owen Pennington on the preferences thing. See http://pobox.com/~hp/free-software-ui.html To summarize, if it needs a preference, then it may be a bad design in the first place. I'm not sure this is a black and white issue, but these minor things deserve our attention as we strive to create quality software (things are generally looking good. We do have good quality software and gtk gives us tools to do this). <rant><Off-Topic>People complain about *nix gui inconsistancy, but have they seen the windows stuff lately? Every program is "skinnable" (cause it's cool), draws their own widgets, etc. Just look at MS Office. They are on their 3rd or 4th widget incarnation, bypassing the win32 default ui stuff. I just saw a program called Go!zilla, and it is horrible. So we're doing okay so far, I think.</Off-Topic></rant> In light of this article, I'd say that going with gtkhtml (or if it's a gnome application the gnome-help stuff) is better than forcing the user to configure a browser. Michael On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 10:41, nhodge attbi com wrote: > Chris: > > Actually, I already have a Preferences dialog box set up > to allow the user to modify some other behaviors of the > program, so this would just entail adding an edit box and > a variable to my preferences structure. > > Neil > > Neil > > > > Yes but then you have to create a "Preferences" pull down menu > > to set command line for browser. I assume that is easy for you? > > > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list -- Public key available from http://students.cs.byu.edu/~torriem
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