At 12:00 PM 2/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Martin Fuchs wrote:
last week ;-) But that's the only point. To attract more users we have to present them more features/functionality/ usability than Microsoft.
Actually, I have to speak up and disagree with this. One of the main reasons I would love to move to ReactOS is to get rid of all that stuff.
We need to appeal to a wide audience, who all have different preferences on how to do common tasks. I think we need to at least attempt to accomodate them all.
Let's use preprocessor directives (e.g. #ifndef _LEAN_EXPLORER) to disable extended functionality in explorer. This way we can maintain one codebase to create
Ick. In my experience preprocessor directives result in code that falls apart.
It's funny, I used to think MS tried too hard to put every feature under the sun in their OS, but after reading discussions like this, I realize the conundrum they were in.
I suggest we build several explorers, the explorer shell should have the SDI approach with an optional directroy tree pane, a winfile style shell with an MDI interface, and a filezilla shell with a tab interface. Then we let the users decide which shell they like.
ros-general mailing list ros-general@reactos.com http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
Rex Jolliff rex@lvcm.com ReactOS (www.reactos.com) -- Check it out