Re: Windows look and feel

[Philippe Bernery]

Hi,

Thank you both for your answer.

Fred, what would be different between a windows-ish interface and a
real windows interface?

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Philippe

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Philippe Bernery wrote:
>> I asked the question sometimes ago (and got an answer) but did not
>> follow the list for many times.
>> I was wondering if someone was working on giving GNUstep application
>> the look and feel of Windows application on Windows?
>> If yes, what is the status of this project. If no, is there any plan
>> to support it?
>
> You have to be more specific on what you are asking for. Getting a more
> Windows look on Windows is something we are aiming at, but providing a
> Windows feel is currently beyond the scope of our project.
> Surely you will be able to redefine a few keys to get a behaviour that
> is closer to the standard on Windows, but basically GNUstep programs
> will still follow a logic that is closer to OpenStep than to the Windows
> interface standards (as little as such standards exist).
>
> As for the Windows look you will have to wait for the next GNUstep
> release cycle, as we will be focusing on themes once more. (Actually you
> don't have to wait, you can just start to contribute now) Having more
> themes callbacks in gui will allow more of the interface drawing to be
> adjustable.
> There was a proof of concept Windows theme, the code of which was send
> to the mailing list again only a few months ago. Expect something
> similar as a separate theme later on. Our main problem here is as always
> that we don't have any developer that really focuses on Windows. We just
> support it as people keep on asking for it. It would just be great to
> have somebody contributing to GNUstep continuously on that platform.
>
> Fred
>