On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> > On 23 Jun 2008, at 18:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > >On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > > > >On 23 Jun 2008, at 10:41, Bent Normann Olsen wrote: > > > > > > >Yup, I know, but it's a 1-1 port from Win32 to Mac, > > > > > >That's really a very bad idea, unless you are only interested in supporting > > >Windows users switching to a Mac (although even for them the application > > >will > > >feel weird after a while). > > > >So what do Mac users do with all these web-applications and "web 2.0" with > >their other GUI rules ? > > Is it really that hard to imagine that an application which uses the > conventions of a different platform is unnecessarily hard and annoying to use? Well, I can imagine being a women, so: No, it's not hard. But for a company that has 'Think different' as a motto the insistence on adherence to the rules is ironic :-) Secondly, all things you mention apply to advanced users only, and I dare say to developers only: I invite you to visit ALL our customers. Most of them don't even understand what a folder is. They *really* don't care about the rules you mention. Most of them would even be far more happy with a plain DOS application. As our support staff says: The best application has just 1 screen and 1 button: 'Click here', which, when clicked, scans the user's brain and does what (s)he wants. Some users will even manage to mess that up. So: nice theory, but in practice: forget about it, it's not that important. We have other problems to worry about. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
