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Re: But the UI elements ...
by blbbottom on Saturday 21/Feb/2004, @14:25

You can easily see that all elements in KDE are just "emulated" , i.e. painted to look like native elements, because they have many flaws compared to real Aqua. I suspect that with the KDE design it's impossible to use native Aqua widgets, because those don't allow any kind of 'themeing'.

But what the hell .. KDE was not designed with Mac look and feel in mind, so it will always have "alien" UI compared to Aqua. The goal is rather to reduce the pain using it in OS X (very much like what OroborOSX did before Apple produced the "real thing"). Normal Apple users won't use KDE anyway, so I think it's less of an issue.

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Re: But the UI elements ...
by anon on Saturday 21/Feb/2004, @15:09

nope.. it uses the appearance manager just like cocoa and carbon applications do. Nothing is emulated. However, currently, none of the behavior questions have even been addressed yet, nor worked on.

> Normal Apple users won't use KDE anyway, so I think it's less of an issue.

Yes, but normal Mac users can use KDE /apps/

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