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[Tim Pritlove]

On 02.12.2004, at 21:36, Andrew Abernathy wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Tim Pritlove wrote (regarding the look of 
> the checkboxes in OO3):
>
>> 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.
>
> As James noted, we do acknowledge that this is an issue. This is a 
> subject that got a lot of attention internally before we decided to 
> make the change. To defend our choice:


Thanks for spreading out your motivation behind the change. I think I 
get the point and I am going to give it a fair judgement once I get my 
hands on it. The content vs. UI approach makes sense so I am eager to 
see what the actual result is.

Greetings
Tim

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