Subject: Re: AbiWord Interface Review
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 05:21:17 CDT
--- Jared Davis <aiken@clan11.com> wrote: > Hey all,
>
> > Currently AbiWord's icons are GNOME-ish; since
> we're making everything
> > else platform-based (widgets, etc.), we should
> probably use
> > Windows-standard icons on Windows. However, this
> makes it a little
> > less cross-platform/makes appearance platform
> dependent, so this is
> > debatable.
>
> I agree that there is a conflict of interest here,
> with strong cases on both
> sides.
My opinion, wildly overpriced at 2 cents is that the
platform look&feel should be a higher priority than
the application look and feel. Users are much more
likely to use multiple apps on a single OS than
AbiWord on multiple OSes and those in the latter
category are more likely to be more adaptable anyway.
Also, GTK has been ported to Win32 so if we were
doing a Windows GTK build then I would probably expect
that build to have the same icons as the *nix GTK
build.
Andrew Dunbar.
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