At 10:24 06.06.01 +0200, David Monniaux wrote: >On 5 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: > >> He's speaking of the Win32 version here which of course looks and feels >> different than the usual win32 application. This feeling will change as > >Let's add that the UI in the Win32 version is *BUGGY* (my mom runs it and >there are some ugly glitches - and I'm not talking of the screwed-up >support for tablets). So we should not take as "inadequate UI" what is >actually bugs, pure and simple. We should be very careful with the Win32 >version since it may easily convey the wrong impression that Gimp, and >free software in general, is buggy. > What do you suggest? Stopping the distribution of gtk/win32 apps ?? Yeah, the UI is a little buggy and it would be nice if there would have been the possibility/manpower to do some more polishing to get a better working Gtk+-1.4 version (Gtk/win32 "production" is based on Gtk-1.3 from March 2000), but IMHO it was dropped to get the world leading Gnome 2.0 desktop, which would render all win32 stuff useless anyway :-) Until that happens I'll continue to try my best to keep Gtk working even on win32. IMHO the (bad) "looks and feels" reported from win32 users are mostly not related to 'glitches' introduced by the port, but cross platform issues like context menus nested up to a fourth level or a rather visually un-appealing file io dialog, at least if it is not compared to the old Motif dialogs, but decent ones ... And as a reply to your next mail: If I would want my mom use The Gimp, I would have run the installation for her, so all the optimizations for the one time used appears rather wasted to me. Hans -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert
