RE: Look & feel, future plans

[Bissell, Tim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Harrison [mailto:tim@linuxstep.org]

> I've used GNUstep on a few different window managers, and some 
> applications, no matter the window manager, will continue to 
> leave their 
> menu in place, while another application's menu draws over 
> top.  Maybe 
> all the window managers I've used don't behave "properly" (which is a 
> relative term -- what is the proper behaviour that you'd expect in this 
> circumstance?), but the fact remains that it happens, and 
> it's a pain in  the gluteus.

A bug is a bug, so this has no bearing on whether horizontal menus
are "better" than vertical - you might end up with a different app's
menu floating on top of yours, with a fixed-position
Mac-like Horizontal menu.

Anyway, there are three main "themes" to this thread:

* Menus
* Additional UI components
* widget look'n'feel

* Menus
<A good idea being batted[1] around at present>

* Additional  UI components
The more the better! Get writing! (Sorry, not me just yet...life/work etc.)

* Themes
Anything which changed pixel dimensions of widgets is a no-no given the
OpenStep approach to GUI layout.  Being able to change colours, textures
and gradients on the buttons etc. is a fairly minor gain relative to the
recoding effort required to implement it (let alone the gain in API cruft)

regards,

Tim

[1] no offense, Pete



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