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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Ann: TeXCAD 4.1
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On 2004-03-17, Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
>  
>: I don't know how usable Mac OS X is or not and frankly I don't care.
>Usability : is relative to the user.
>
> Well, I think the user is the all important person if you want to sell
> him/her your program. If you sell to a company there will still be
> people who have to provide input to the program, and react to the
> visual reactions of the program. What if they complain?

Who is selling anything here? Anyway from screenshots I cannot say I can
see what is so much better with the Mac OS X toolkit. No, I'm not
talking about the other setup things.

> Usually you can sell all three version and the feedback might be that
> the respective version fits better with the rest of the operating
> system than a Gtk interface (compare the GIMP's file open dialog to
> the native; does d&d work outside GNOME...)

Well take a look at Gtk 2.4 that was released today.

But I guess you would like to do a native Mac OS X version?

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