Havoc Pennington wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:49, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>>>Xine, mplayer, VLC. They work well, i.e., show video and all, but they
>>>are ugly, seem to use some arbitrary toolkit, if any at all. Xine's UI
>>>is ugly, mplayers is ugly. They lack proper integration into the system
>
>That is OPINION. I like Xine's UI. I also like the ogle gui. I relly
>like that I'm not forced to use it. A replacement could be developed
>that I might like better. I have no problem deling with multiple
>toolkits. I work with GNOME, GTK+, Motif, and Xt based apps all the
>time. I have NO problems using any of them.
It's great to have variety, but there are some technical issues with
apps that don't use the standard toolkits that lead us to prefer
toolkit-using apps as the defaults.
"prefered" apps is fine by me. I'm not forced to use the
"prefered" one.
I can pick the one I want to use, just like I can choose a
kernel.org or
-ac kernel, or run mozilla 1.2 when Red Hat supported 1.0.x.
The point being, toolkit choice does not make an app ugly or bad. The
fact that it looks/acts different also doesn't make it bad. Personaly I
like variety, and have no problems dealing with it. I dislike the
"everything looks the same" world of M$ and Mac. Se previous message and
discussion of car interiors.
-Thomas