2005/10/17, Roland Leißa ros_knue@web.de:
Hi,
I have read a bit of your homepage and a bit of the mailinglists. Some people complained about the quite "ugly" GUI. Here my suggestion: Do not put your energy in improving the GUI for ReactOS. It would be nice when ReactOS will run on slow and older machines, too. But a ReactOS-Distro could include KDE (or GNOME) as default GUI. There will be a KDE- and a GNOME-version for Windows in a year or so. Hence it will also run on ReactOS (at least theoratically). So people who like to have a marvelous looking desktop enviroment can use KDE or GNOME. Besides there will be dozens of usefull application (just think of Kate, K3B, Kile, AmaroK, Konqueror, KOffice, KMail, Kontact, ...). A ReactOS-Distro could, of couse, include all those packages and a linux-distro-like package manager. It would be great to see mingw-, qt-, gtk-, wx-, gnome- and kde-dlls. This would make a ReactOS-Distro very thin and lean because - for instance - every wx-application can link dynamically against the wx-library and so on.
Except that KDE or GNOME isn't really a Windows GUI nor can it run Windows software (presuming on the applications you mentioned)...
-mikko