2005/10/15, Al Hartman alhartman6@comcast.net:
First of all, thanks to all of you for all your work on ReactOS.
Secondly, why reinvent the wheel?
Why not simply assure that ReactOS is compatible with WindowBlinds?
http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/
I'm much more interested in ReactOS having Rock-Solid base functionality...
- Printing
- Networking
- Speed
- Compatibility with Apps.
Rather than UI eye-candy.
That stuff can come later, or by using the many third party skinning apps for Windows.
Thanks!
Al
Since when has UI been eye-candy? When it comes to UI design, what you see is just the cream on the cake, there are layers of functionality under it.
Besides, we need solid base UI in case someone doesn't want windowsblinds. That's just bad practice (force someone to use certain third party apps). ROS is practically all about flexibility so such behaviour really doesn't fit the picture.
It's not like we have one developer who has to focus either on functionality or eye candy... Things progress side by side.
+like I have stated many many times before: One key factors of acceptance is likeability which basically means how functional we experience the UI before actually using it. Since acceptance plays a key factor in decisions it should not be overlooked as mere "cream on the cake". To me, that is blanant overlooking of basic psychology. Since we want to get as many user we can get and that way get as many dev's as possible the importance of UI looks becomes quite clear.
-mikko