Re: [BLACKBOX] Seasoned Linux.

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:36:00 -0500

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Douglas G. Danforth wrote:

> The BlackBox philosophy is to make the GUI have the look-and-feel of the
> OS on which it is running.

This philosophy was motivated by the commercial market. BlackBox once
ran on Macs. It would be hard to convince a Mac user to adopt Windows
look-and-feel. Hence the "philosophy". I somehow feel that the opposite
would not be true. A Windows user would be probably surprised to find a
Mac look-and-feel, but probably would not care.

Two things happened since then. First, two platforms became one platform.
Second, BB is not that commercial anymore.

> Hence all of the HOST files in BlackBox need to be rewritten for the
> target OS.

Probably true, but not because of the philosophy. I am not sure if anyone
cares about the look-and-feel. I presume that HOST files have to
be implemented in the target OS simply because they are necessary to run
the system. I presume it is a bit secondary how the GUI will look like.

W.

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