On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:03:54PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapot? : > > > I disagree. GUI apps in Linux are so wildly disparate that knowing the > > basic architecture is pretty important for me to decide whether or not I > > want it. > > What a normal user care about is the purpose and features of software, > not the libraries (toolkit) used to build this software. >
This is true. However, as Microsoft and Apple seem to believe, it's not a nutty idea to believe that people care about how fonts look, clipboard operations work, and what the keyboard shortcut for File|Save is. Call me nutty for buying into this. Whether or not an app is GTK1, GTK2, Tcl/Tk, or QT3 makes a big difference to this. So yes, the library doesn't matter, but the core feature set is kinda relevant. Maybe you could find another way to describe it.
