[openbeos] Re: Patch: Prettifying the default decorator
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:31:39 +0100 CET
Ralf Schülke <teammaui@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Interesting. But we will Haiku look to r1 ?
I'm afraid I don't understand the question :-)
Thomas Winwood wrote:
> This begs the question, however, if we are not aiming to look like R5
> then what *are* we aiming to look like? I can hardly imagine we're
> going
> to try and market R1 with the widgets we have currently - they look
> awfully as though they were thrown together by a programmer more
> interested in actually getting the app_server finished than making
> the
> widgets look respectable. :P
Well, the app_server has nothing to do with the way the widgets look
like, and the look is just not finished - no need to get mean, anyways.
I think I can say that we currently want Haiku to look similar to R5,
but in a modernized manner, and with its own identity.
Curtis Wanner wrote:
> Then you fail to recognize the goals of this project. The OS is to
> be
> functional above all else, not just look "pretty". I never said
> graphical
> design is not a part of it, but it seems both you and Thomas seem to
> have an
> idea that graphical design has the highest priority in UI design. It
> doesn't.
Definitely, I would even go as far to say that UI design has almost
nothing to do with graphical design, similar as software design has
nothing to do with either one.
They may interact, and they share a creative process, but that's it.
Bye,
Axel.
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