Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,


> I don't really like too much eye-candy personally. The first thing I did at 
> work was to change Windows Vista from Aero to Classic mode because I prefer 
> Windows Classic (Windows 2000?) look compared to Aero. On the other hand, I 
> think Snow Leopard looks quite good and I also think KDE4 and Gnome look sort 
> of ok.
>
> But the NEXTSTEP look is too old-fashened even for me (I don't care if it is a 
> masterpiece. I don't want to put a picture of it in a frame on the wall, I 
> want to use it as a desktop environment). I really like ObjC and the 
> openstep/gnustep/Cocoa APIs. But everytime I sit down to develop something 
> using gnustep, the old-fashened Look & Feel kills my motivation because I 
> think nobody will use it anyway and I decide to use Qt/KDE instead (I am 
> actually a former KDE developer).
>   
Well, what you write here actually proves my point. The first thing I do 
on XP or Vista is to reset to Windows classic. Windows classic is then - 
barring the icons of XP or Vista - pretty much like WIndows 2000 indeed. 
And the controls, widgets, buttons are those of NT4 or 95/98.

But guess what? In my opinion Microsoft really copied the NeXT look and 
adapted it to the Windows 3.1 style. I can tell you since I develop the 
WinClassic theme. SOmetimes i have difficulties recognizing if I themend 
an Item or not or int he images folder the images really look close 
together. SUre there are differences, there are different controls, but 
that is not the point.

If you swithc back to classic, you are essentially stating you like the 
"old look" you despise.

THe difference is in many details of polish, different fonts and 
especially more uniform Icons.
Also, you notice the "incompleteness" of several applications. When 
Applications have a more complete feature-set, are well implemented (I 
think of Gorm or GNUMail for example) everything is better.

Riccardo