Re: [ros-dev] The new look of ReactOS 21942

[David Hinz]

theUser BL schrieb:
>   Last week I have tested ReactOS build 21942.
>  And I wondern about the ugly changes:
>  
>  - wrong gradient on the top of the windows. 
It's not _wrong_, it's
different. And when the colors are slightly 
changed, it looks alot better, than in windows, imho...

>   - the symbols which say, which icon on the desktop is
> a link and which not,
>   is now on the right bottom, instead of the left bottom
>   But some icon-designer have the icons so designed, that its ok, if there
>   is something on the left bottom of the icon lost. But the icons are
>   not so designed, that it is lost on any other place. 
Imho users either know, if an
icon is a shortcut or not, or don't even 
know what a shortcut is, so these small icons could be removed.
But that's a topic we could have yearlong arguments on, so I guess these 
things should stay the way they are and we should wait for more user 
responses.

>   It seems, there are now some ReactOS-developer, who
> don't like Windows. 
If all ReactOS-developers would love Windows, would this
project even 
exist??

>   I would prefering it, if ReactOS looks most as
> possible like Windows.
>  And if anybody wants to have its own look, that then existing options to 
>  change the look of ReactOS. 
 From ReactOS.org:
"ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both 
applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, 
by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent 
public interface."
This says, we will create something compatible to windows, not a clone.

If you want everything to be like it is in windows, go and use windows.

Please excuse my hard formulation, I just wanted to point out, that this 
project is not about _cloning_ windows, but about creating a innovative 
OS, compatible to Windows NT.

>   Greatings
>  theuserbl 
Greets,

David Hinz