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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
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> For example, as the GNOME guidelines say, a user using a computer
> with a graphical user interface should see a consistent (see "Ada
> culture", see also Ada RM :-) user interface accross applications,
> whether these applications appear as one application (document
> centered approach) or not.
> But GNOME /= Windows, thus a GNOME style application and a Windows
> style application both running on Windows might have the very same
> Ada parts, but they must fail to have the same user interface parts.
>
> This is why I said it might be worthwhile writing applications
> that specifically use an operating system's features.

Right. That's why we built Claw as Windows-specific; that's less interesting
than a GUI that works everywhere, but it makes it possible to build an
application that looks and feels like other Windows applications. (I only
wish more Windows programs actually did that!)

                     Randy.