Moving Forward in Ubuntu (Wine, Debian and Universe)

[Matthew Thomas]

Mike Hearn wrote:
 >
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:41:27 +0000, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > Giving Windows programs the same theme as GTK programs would be a bad 
> > idea for Ubuntu, for two reasons.
>  
> I strongly disagree. You could apply the same logic to Firefox or
> OpenOffice (which uses the Windows button ordering).

Yes, I would apply it to OpenOffice. I wouldn't apply it to Firefox, 
because Firefox uses the Gnome button ordering 
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233456>. Thunderbird does 
too, except for isolated bugs 
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235115>.

> I've never heard anybody complain that they were tricked by this.

That's because it's not the sort of thing people complain about; they 
blame themselves for losing their work intsead.

>...
> IMHO we should strive for the best desktop integration possible.
>...

I agree entirely.

-- 
Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/