> > One can also argue whether the GUI of an application should be internally
> > consistent or externally consistent.
> >
>
> Yes, doing this would be a major win. The X server is fundamentally a
> low-level graphics display entity; it is not concerned with "look and
> feel". Doing it this way would let your thing work on pretty much ALL
> Unix systems, irregardless of what funky graphics hardware they need,
> *plus* they would let you run legacy apps on the same desktop...
>
> This is basically the idea behind GNUStep too..
Well KDE does this already today ;-)
http://www.kde.org
Regards,
-- martin
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