Re: NSToolbar (was Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa...)

[Jason Clouse]

On 2004-01-12 19:55:56 +0100 Fabien VALLON 
<fabien.vallon@fr.alcove.com> wrote:
> > Because it comes from Apple
>
> I see some people complains about non portability with Cocoa.
> I don't see any patch (that could be included: NSDocument 
> arch./NSSavePanel
> delegate update...) or extensions.
>
> Maybye (you or Alex Perez) are not developers ...
> Are you only doing politic and flamewars ?

It's true that I'm not much of a developer.  I've contributed a little 
bit of code here and there.  Wrote some Makefiles to make SMySQL build 
with GNUstep, working on a port of CocoaMySQL, done a lot of 
evangelizing and promotion.

I'm not also not trying to engage in flamewars.  I'm just summarizing 
the most violently anti-Apple statements I've seen from some on this 
list.  My view is that a few people are just bitter that Apple has 
taken charge of their "baby" and oppose anything that Apple does.

There are probably some good arguments that toolbars are not good UI 
design, or that they aren't implemented well.  But nobody is forcing 
those folks to use it; and it doesn't do damage to implement them.  
They still oppose it, even though it's harmless.  I can't find any 
reason other than petty childishness for such views.  If those people 
who take that position would like to enlighten me and clarify their 
opinions, I'll gladly take back my assessment.