On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Duncan Temple Lang wrote: > I think it is a little premature to entirely discount > Gtk2, especially if it is based on Philippe's remark > below. Philippe, did you try other applications, > different themes, different configurations, or just the vanilla GIMP? > and when? While I don't necessarily disagree with the claim that it is > different from Windows look and feel, it requires a little bit more > evidence.
My main concern has been stability of gtk/gtk2 under Windows. I've used it off and on for several years, and it has always been flaky -- sometimes it works on one computer but crashes on another, for example. Personally, I have not seen any GTK2-based application that I find better than acceptable as a GUI, whereas I have seen some Qt-based ones I really liked. But I realize this is a matter of individual taste (as it seems are Tk widgets - someone must like them!). However, as an educator I see a lot of resistance to learning new tricks without good reason. If the point of adding a GUI to R is to avoid people learning to use a command-line, it needs to be a GUI with which they are comfortable. (I presume that is part of the reason why applications flocked to MS-Office style GUIs a few years ago.) People (such as me) who are not comfortable with such styles are not in a good position to judge their needs. [...] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
