[openbeos] Re: Visual design stuff again

> [Oops, I apparently failed to send this mail yesterday.]
> 
> Although, I decided not to fuel this thread further by throwing my 
> opinion 
> at the list, here a misperception has to be pointed out.

And although I said I wouldn't post again.
 
> On 2003-09-25 at 17:24:15 [+0200], Simon Taylor wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 17:19, Simon Taylor wrote:
> > > > My point is that appearing to be a complete "clone" of R5 will 
> > > > not
> > > > please everyone. Moreover, that does not even accurately 
> > > > reflect
> > > > what
> > > > R1 will be.
> > > 
> > > Are you saying that a different UI would please everyone?
> > 
> > No. That is why I would like to see all the existing code kept, and 
> > an
> > option to switch to an R5 look if so desired.
> 
> The look of R5 controls is hard-coded. Providing the possibility to 
> switch 
> between different looks would require massive changes, namely a 
> framework 
> to support this (i.e. a skinning framework). Since it was agreed, 
> that no 
> major feature should be added to R1, this is just not going to 
> happen.

I was thinking similar to windows XP - not a whole skinning API (there 
is a whole different discussion on whether we actually want that, but 
that is definately one for GE ;-)). Namely, the ability to switch 
between "old" and "new", both hardcoded.

My initial thought was to do this by an environment variable, possibly 
in home/config/boot/UserSetupEnvironment - Be did something similar to 
change to R4 audio subsystem.
 
> Note, that I'm not saying, that, if someone popped up with the 
> complete set 
> of widgets changed to another look, there wouldn't be the chance, 
> that 
> these were chosen over the R5-style ones. Nor do I say, that there 
> would be 
> a certain chance. I'm simply saying nothing here. So, this is a 
> completely 
> pointless paragraph, apparently. ;-)

lol

> CU, Ingo

Seriously, my last post on the topic ;-)


Simon

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