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[James Moore]

On Nov 30, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Tim Pritlove wrote:

> 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.
>

I understand your reservations and I hope you'll send us feedback after 
you use it.

> 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?
>

There is no option to change the UI.

> Pop-up menus seem to have a different appearance as well... hmm.
>

We are drawing pretty much everything ourselves with the partial 
exception of the text itself. In some cases we've had to revert to 
doing things ourselves because of bugs we ran into down in Apple's 
stuff.

Stuff is now officially a technical term.


-James

Technical Support Engineer
The Omni Group


> 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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