On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:15:38 +0300, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@[...].nz> 
wrote:
 
Peter Damoc wrote:
 
If the feel is implemented using the best approach (think OSX) users on 
other systems won't mind.
 
The notion of "best" is observer-dependent.
 
True, but good apps tend to get accepted. For example I was a Winamp
evangelist  and seeing iTunes with its huge 
download size and huge memory consuption I was a little put off BUT after
using iTunes a little bit I got hooked, now I'm 
a iTunes adept. The quality of the app got me in spite of its shortcomings.
 
I don't think it's a matter of "best", anyway, but of things
behaving consistently with other applications on the platform.
If the user is accustomed to certain menu items being in
certain places or having certain key equivalents, for
example, it's annoying when some applications do things
differently.
 
True again BUT people are able to learn and when they see their time valued
by the app, they tend to use it, even if they 
might have to learn a few new tricks along the way.
 
I think appearance is important to many people, too. Mac
users in particular tend to be unimpressed by apps which
look un-Mac-like. It gives an impression of shoddiness,
of having been ported from somewhere else in a quick and
dirty way, which doesn't help to engender a feeling of
trust in it.
 
Appearance can be pluggable, QT proved possible and apps don't have to be
100% accurate, if they look close enough to what 
they should look on that platform, people don't notice the missing bits.
 
Maybe Windows users are less discerning, I don't know.
But I wouldn't like to foist an Aqua-looking app on a
Windows user. If I'm to ask that Mac apps look Mac-like,
I feel I owe them the same courtesy.
 
Windows users are used to multi look and feel desktops, either due to the
whole win2k apps on WinXP or due to big players 
like Yahoo not playing by the rules.
 
Although if Longhorn turns out to rip off Aqua closely
enough, maybe this will cease to be an issue... 
 
 
 one can always hope! 
 
Peter.

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