Re: [ros-general] ReactOS UI...

[Mikko Tikkanen]

2005/10/15, Al Hartman <alhartman6(a)comcast.net>et>:
>   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