Re: Look & feel, future plans

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Magnus Lofgren wrote:
> What are the plans for the future look & feel of GNUstep? I never had the 
> honor of using NeXTSTEP myself, but I understand many who has will want to 
> keep it as close as possible to the classic NeXT look.
> As far as widgets are concerned, It's clear that the aim is the look of NeXT 
> 3.x, and I'm all for that, but how likely is this to change in the future?
> I understand that naturally, you will want to set the classic NeXT look & 
> feel the initial goal, and then add interesting stuff from there, but there 
> are some elements I find slightly irritating, like the vertical menu's for 
> example, where Apple has found, IMHO, a far better solution.
> I would like to hear some of your opinions on this.

Hi,

well esp. the issue with menus is a hot potatoe... I almost bet that you will
not find many (ex-)NeXT users who like horizontal menus better than NeXT's 
approach. I strongly believe that vertical menus are far superior and that
Apple made a big mistake in dropping them, but this is just my opinion...:-)

-Phil
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