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Reality is a point of view asked, wrote, or quoted:
>For the newsgroups
>that may not be aware; Java has yet another new GUI, similar to
>X+whatever, in that you can repeatedly change look and feel at
>runtime, yet for each application, and the application won't
>notice, much.  So there is a Microsoft L&F and an Apple L&F but
>only 'enabled' on specific platforms.

Did Sun use use a heavy duty lock to enforce that?  It should not be long
before there is an unofficial patch to defeat it, and allow Apple LaF on
all platforms.

Further, a LaF is surprisingly small.  I don't remember just how big, but I
remember asking developers a year ago and being happily surprised.  This
means individuals could create their own -- perhaps starting life as minor
variants on the official themes.

After a spewing megabytes of venom on DOS /Windows inconsistency over the
years, I look forward to a LaF structure that gives me super-consistency 
across applications and super customisabilily.  I am sick to the teeth of
every program using different function keys for starting a search/replace.
I pray Sun will not be so gutless as Microsoft in defining cross app
function key standards. They don't need to nail down a particular key for a
particular purpose.  They simply need to nail down the official purposes,
and allow a configurable hook ACROSS ALL APPS to a particular key. They
also need a standard way to configure individual function keys assignments
in ANY individual app. Every app should not need to provide its own unique
function key mapper. 

Further I use a DSK keyboard and Ctrl-C V X are not the ideal keys to
choose for one handed cut paste typing.  I would like to remap these to
Ctrl- ; Q J or Q J X.. Lefty DSK typists might like W V Z.  I would like to
do this ONCE, not once per app.

Java could take over simply because it offers a decent user interface.
Users won't want any "old fashioned" programs that don't comply -- in the
same way they abandoned DOS apps for 32-bit Windows ones.

Linux has great guts but a hopelessly inconsistent user interface.  Marry
the two. Ditto for many other OSes that are good except for the supply of
application programs.


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