Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Windows UI

[Mike Frisch <mfrisch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:22:11AM -0700, John McDermott wrote:
> It is very, very nice to have the same UI on both windows and UNIX.  It
> makes writing manuals for environments where some prefer each system

Is it *really* that difficult to take two screenshots- one Gtk and one
Win32?

> much easier.  The ability to change the look of gtk (i.e. with styles
> applied external to the program) also makes it very nice.  If anyone

Yes, it is a great feature and when a theme comes along that's
consistent and actually attractive, I will use it.  It is funny to hear
people touting the technical benefits of any UNIX running GNOME/Gtk on
the desktop and then try and compare the appearance of Gtk with that of
Windows.

The Windows UI has been around for much longer than Gtk.  It is
obviously more mature and much more refined.

> option.  I, for one, prefer many aspects of GTK over those of Windows,
> and I use both Windows and Linux a great deal.

Without getting into an OS war, Windows XP has themeable controls now.
I cannot imagine that Gtk offers anything over Windows in the UI
department.

This is all just my opinion, of course.  Maybe somebody does like the
ugliness of the default Gtk theme.

Mike.