John Torjo wrote:
More seriously, UI consistancy with the local platform is rather important. On X systems, every time you double-click the title it collapses into it, while on Windows it maximises! The GUI should by default behave the same as the rest of the user's programs. Think of it as localising to the users UI locale.
Thats a good point, but is that not convention only? Its not required behaviour. Suppose I am on an XWindows system and I want MSWindows behaviour. That point
I think you're thinking like a programmer here :) (and not like a user). A user expects your program to follow a standard (the OS's standard)
Well, some OSes don't have any GUI standard, unfortunately. I do believe localization is a good concept. Of course, the default locale would be 'native', so everybody should ba happy, right ? Regards, Stefan