What are consequences (the lack of freedom on the USA)

[Havoc Pennington]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:49, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> Sorry Matthis, I lost the previous message:)
> 
> Matthias Saou wrote:
> > Maynard Kuona wrote :
> >>Xine, mplayer, VLC. They work well, i.e., show video and all, but they
> >>are ugly, seem to use some arbitrary toolkit, if any at all. Xine's UI
> >>is ugly, mplayers is ugly. They lack proper integration into the system
> 
> That is OPINION. I like Xine's UI. I also like the ogle gui. I relly 
> like that I'm not forced to use it. A replacement could be developed 
> that I might like better. I have no problem deling with multiple 
> toolkits. I work with GNOME, GTK+, Motif, and Xt based apps all the 
> time. I have NO problems using any of them.
> 

It's great to have variety, but there are some technical issues with
apps that don't use the standard toolkits that lead us to prefer
toolkit-using apps as the defaults.

Some of these are a11y, i18n, etc.:
http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/desktop/defaults.html

Anyway, just something to keep in mind.

Havoc