# When people advance *Windows* as a *consistent* UI, something is *badly*
# wrong.
No, not really. Between applications, Windows is very consitent. Between
versions, there's horrible inconsisitencies (which I said, I believe).
# Yes, it's more consistant than X, but that's about the limit.
X isn't a desktop environment. GNOME is, KDE is, CDE is, X isn't.
# (Incidentally, they also have the "treat structured files as directories"
# thing. In purely user-level code. For a strictly selected set of
# structured files and contents thereof.)
Quite simply: That's nice for the MacOS, but the only comparison that can
be made is the type of feature we're discussing; the situation is very
different.
The GNUstep people have got Bundles pretty well tied up on Linux
anyway.. being as MacOS X handles them like NeXTstep did - i.e., the GUI
behaviour is different from the command-line behaviour (the former treats
the bundle as a file, unless you tell it otherwise, the latter treats it
as the directory it actually is).
I know this works well on NeXTstep, but the average NeXTstep user is a tad
more clued up about things than your average Windows user, or even your
average Linux newbie.
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