Re: UI design [was Owen Taylor's paper]

On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 15:09, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> And the GNOME press releases seem to imply that the GNOME 2 API is perfect
> and intended to last forever ;-)

Well the gnome 2 API should probably stay pretty stable...but maybe we
should start thinking about real UI plumbing changes for the gnome 3 and
kde 5 APIs....not to mention other toolkits like java.  The idea of real
cross toolkit UI compatibility hasn't really been a pressing issue...you
need a certain level of competition in the toolkit space for a platform
before coding in crosstoolkit compatibility features starts making sense
in terms of developer time.  Anyways these type of efforts can not be
Redhat based.....ALL the toolkit developers need to see a need for cross
toolkit themability at the application layer....instead of seeking UI
purity via toolkit usage purity at the application level.

-jef