Checkbox design

[mentorsw]

Tim,

I suggest you think of the checkboxes as 'content' rather than User 
Interface controls. The design is completely appropriate as it separates 
UI controls that affect content (MacOS checkboxes) from the information 
in the document.

>Hmm. I will postpone my final opinion until I have had my hands on this 
>new version but so far I disliked it when software didn't accept OSX's 
>look and feel as I don't like to learn recognizing GUI controls on a 
>per-application basis. I work with so many apps and with so many apps 
>at the same time so I want to reuse my knowledge about the GUI across 
>the line. That's my main concern with mozilla apps for instance.
>
>Will there be an option to turn that off at least on-screen? Or is it 
>deeply buried in OO3's way of doing things in favor of having 
>consistently scaled printing?
>
>Pop-up menus seem to have a different appearance as well... hmm.
>
>Greetings
>Tim
>
>
>On 30.11.2004, at 22:43, James Moore wrote:
>
>> The new UI elements you see in the screenshot were designed to go with 
>> the new flatter look of Outliner's UI. These new checkboxes are vector 
>> PDFs and should hopefully look consistent when scaled during printing.
>>
>>
>> -James
>>
>> Technical Support Engineer
>> The Omni Group
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Tim Pritlove wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 30.11.2004, at 20:27, James Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://macnn.com/news/27097
>>>>
>>>> The screenshots are for Pro.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm. Where do the ugly checkboxes come from? Is it a theme of the 
>>> reviewer or has OO3 built-in replacement of standard UI controls?
>>>
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