On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:45:16PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > > And everyone else would say this is because you have been hacking > > > on LyX too long. > > > > If I set the XForms widget colours to the light green that KLyX used > > to default to it looks very similar to that "modern" toolkit. > > > > So what am I missing? (the "Feel" of the menus is bad. Otherwise?) > > xforms restrictions have prevented us from improving the UI. > The dialogs are buggy. The widgets are clunky. Keyboard navigability is awful. > Resizing is broken. The widgets look awful, light green or not. Some widgets > have no focus ability or highlighting. The textline chooser doesn't work > with clicks properly. Radio buttons look like checkboxes. pop up menus > feel icky. Tabs have known problems. No way to show disabled textboxes etc. > latex preamble is broken in some versions. The default "ask" box has the > buttons in a stupid order. Citation dialog has several problems. The file > dialog is broken ... I could go on.
These are almost all "feel" complaints. That doesn't mean they aren't valid but they do alter what "ugly" is referring to. Maybe my eyes need testing but I don't see much difference between most XForms widgets and their corresponding Qt or Gtk widgets. > > particular widget that causes your optic nerve distress? Any that > > make you twitch uncontrollably? > > the checkboxes for one. ugly and unthemeable. and the menus. and the rest. A checkbox is checkbox is a checkbox. Whether it's a diamond or a circle or a whatever. I don't get this complaint at all. So it looks different to your favourite toolkits radio-button? Should all toolkits have radio buttons that look the same? Allan. (ARRae)
