From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T02:17:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Help a newbie pick a gui tool kit

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:54:53 +0900, Nicholas Marriott
<nicNOSPAM@ufie.org.invalid> wrote:

> These things are all great - even important - for the programmer. However,
> for the user the look and interface is the most important thing and the GUI
> exists for the user, not the programmer. I, at least, find the Fox interface
> ugly and uncomfortable to use, which in my book makes it pretty useless.
> 
> I appreciate that Fox and FXRuby do have many good points (it is ahead of Wx
> in most regards) but until the look of the interface on X is improved, I
> won't even consider using it. I just can't agree that something that looks
> like
> 
> http://www.fox-toolkit.org/screenshots/arithmedrill-screenshot.png
> 
> is acceptable for a modern GUI app.

It is unfortunate that this is one of the few screenshots on that page
that appears to have been taken on an X desktop of some kind, since it
looks like that particular application's author didn't put a lot of
effort into the UI design (which, to be fair, was probably not his
primary concern). There are, however, screenshots for several other
FOX applications on that same screen (including one by Mr. Cribbs)
that look (IMO) a lot more polished. Though it's true that some of
those screenshots were made on Windows boxes, FOX's look and feel is
(for better or worse) consistent across platforms, and so those
applications should look almost exactly the same running under X.