--- Andreas Mohr andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:56:30AM -0700, William Poetra Yoga Hadisoesen wrote:
This is related to my last post. The buttons wine draw actually have wrong borders, like for example a normal window has this close button:
That could be rather deliberate, since I'd say we're not really out to do a blatant "boring" copy of Microsoft's work... (while it's obvious that we are often forced to follow in Microsoft's footsteps in this project in order to get Windows programs to run at all, it's not as if we ALWAYS want to do that exactly - and sometimes there are even better ways to implement something...)
If it really makes a functional difference, then I guess it should be fixed, otherwise why not leave it as is?
Andreas Mohr
Well, WINE is supposed to provide a Win32-compatible API, IMO. At least it looks right if we fix it. This does have some positive impacts on the development of WINE, such as: 1. Developers coming from Windows can have the same "look and feel". This increases their productivity, although indirectly. When people see something different but similar to the one they see everyday, their attention will be divided to the new object and the work they are doing. And their motivation to work will decrease, too, if the GUI doesn't get fixed. 2. Windows users looking at WINE will reject it straight away, because it doesn't look like a "professionaly-made" software, and maybe mocking it as a carelessly written software, with sloppy GUI. Remember, some users become developers.
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