On Nov 24, 2005, at 11:30 PM, H.Fagard wrote:
The Aqua interface will definitely be the goal to reach, but it will take some time and in the meantime the (imho) improved interface is _so easy_ to provide with the next Inkscape/MacOS X distributions that I see no reason to deprive ourserlves of it.
Ahhh, but there's the rub.
The key question is how "improved" is it?
Often, looking closer to something while not actually being it can be worse than being right-out. Something that looks like a standard Mac app but isn't might annoy users who end up trying to do things in an entirely mac way, which will then fail. So one factor is that by looking like an X11 app, people will subconsciously assume it behaves like an X11 app, whereas with the "fake" aqua GTK+ theme people might subconsciously assume it behaves like a standard Mac App and get frustrated when it doesn't.
Thus the usability would actually go down.
:-(