Re: TIP #172: Improve UNIX Tk Look and Feel

From: Ralf Fassel (ralfixx_at_gmx.de)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:41:03 +0100

* "Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
| > However, if you develop an FLTK script on a Windows box, it will,
| > outside of the native frame, look the same under Linux, UNIX,
| > S390,...
|
| Not everyone likes that. Some do, but some don't.

In my experience one-GUI-for-all is useful for those working on
multiple platforms regulary (e.g. I as a developer, checking that my
script runs on Unix *and* Windows), and not useful for those working
on one platform only when the application L&F is not native to that
platform (the end user who only uses Windows).

The opposite (different L&F dependent on platform): the tk checkbutton
on Unix by default is raised/grey when unchecked and sunken/yellow(violet?)
when checked. On Windows, it is sunken/yellow(violet?) when _un_checked,
and sunken/yellow-with-checkmark when checked. This regularly
confuses me when looking at Windows OFF checkbuttons (I think they're
ON). OTOH a Windows user would think they're OFF on Unix when in fact
they're ON.

R'