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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: FOSS annoyances
Date: 1 Jan 2010 22:17:04
Message: <4b3ebab0$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> ...the program uses the GTK+ look and feel, rather than behaving like a
>> native Windows application?
> 
> I'm pretty sure Gimp on Windows uses the Windows (2000) look and feel.

AFAIK, GTK+ looks like Windows using the same technique as Java Swing: 
implementing the theme from scratch to look like that.

And that is when you notice subtle Windows details that you don't normally 
notice... when Swing gets them wrong.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: FOSS annoyances
Date: 2 Jan 2010 14:55:40
Message: <4b3fa4bc$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I'm pretty sure you have to blame Microsoft itself for that. Isn't open() 
> defined in msvcrt.dll?

Now that you mention it, quite possibly yes. :-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: FOSS annoyances
Date: 4 Jan 2010 06:39:20
Message: <4b41d368@news.povray.org>
>> Heh, well, the *really* fun thing is when you have to install GTK+
>> before the program will run... We all know what happens then. ;-)
> 
> In Linux you have to install GTK+ before the program will run too. The 
> difference is that Linux distros have package managers that make it sane.

More correctly: The difference is that on Linux, *lots* of programs use 
GTK+, not just the GIMP. ;-)

Actually, one of the more perplexing things about Linux is how different 
widget toolkits look and behave completely differently. Things seem to 
have got more sane over there recently, thank God...


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