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forkies · Jun 17, 2002, 01:56 PM

I found the following <a href="http://images.lindows.com/gallery/install/shot6.jpg" target="_blank">image</a> at the <a href="http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products_screenshots.php?install=yes" target="_blank">Lindows screenshot gallery</a>:

<img src="http://www.gustavus.edu/~apeters4/lindowspic.gif" alt=" - " />

It's an Aqua button, isn't it?

IUJHJSDHE · Jun 17, 2002, 02:03 PM

I don't think it's copying Mac OS X at all!

It might be copying a bit of aqua but lots of things are doiing that these days.

dn15 · Jun 17, 2002, 03:35 PM

I think that's the result of your web browser using an Aqua style checkbox, which it does in every web site with such a form. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

[ 06-17-2002, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: dn15 ]

starfleetX · Jun 17, 2002, 03:44 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by dn15:
I think that's the result of your web browser using an Aqua style checkbox, which it does in every web site with such a form. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> <hr /></blockquote>Bzzzzt Wrong. Look at the original picture. Is OmniWeb anywhere to be seen?

<img src="http://images.lindows.com/gallery/install/shot6.jpg" alt=" - " />

IUJHJSDHE · Jun 17, 2002, 03:44 PM

Look at the full picture.

It's on linux with a windows theme not mac os x.

It's designed that way

Edit: Oops, It's linux with a windows theam

[ 06-18-2002, 09:19 AM: Message edited by: IUJHJSDHE ]

starfleetX · Jun 17, 2002, 03:50 PM

Also, note the empty scroll bar track. Definitely a straight rip from Aqua.

voodoo · Jun 17, 2002, 04:32 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by starfleetX:
Also, note the empty scroll bar track. Definitely a straight rip from Aqua.<hr /></blockquote>...but that is one thing Aqua would do well to lose. Don't look good IMO.

Northform · Jun 17, 2002, 05:25 PM

This is not a Lindows OS thing. Rather it is a KDE/Konquer thing since the page renders in IE (under 9) and Mozilla as non-aqua buttons.

dn15 · Jun 17, 2002, 11:28 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Bzzzzt Wrong. Look at the original picture. Is OmniWeb anywhere to be seen?<hr /></blockquote>Oops. The cropped picture was misleading. Sorry.

[ 06-17-2002, 11:29 PM: Message edited by: dn15 ]

forkies · Jun 18, 2002, 12:11 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by dn15:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Bzzzzt Wrong. Look at the original picture. Is OmniWeb anywhere to be seen?<hr /></blockquote>Oops. The cropped picture was misleading. Sorry.

<hr /></blockquote>That's why I put a link to the original image and to the page where I found it, ya goof.

Rickster · Jun 18, 2002, 12:26 AM

Looks like they took a screenshot of the page content in IE for OS X and then pasted it into a screenshot of a Linux browser's interface. Maybe Lindows' web people are too busy doing graphic & web design to mess with Linux themselves.

sambeau · Jun 18, 2002, 06:32 AM

I'm with Rickster. Looks like they're using a graphic design/ web design company that use macs..

undotwa · Jun 18, 2002, 09:00 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by sambeau:
I'm with Rickster. Looks like they're using a graphic design/ web design company that use macs..<hr /></blockquote>Hehe... you know the Win 95 startup logo was designed on a Mac. Heh, and so were the Win XP icons <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> It's just funny...

Developer · Jun 18, 2002, 10:14 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by undotwa:

Hehe... you know the Win 95 startup logo was designed on a Mac. Heh, and so were the Win XP icons <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> It's just funny...<hr /></blockquote>A lot of Cocoa was written on an Intel computer. That's funny. LOL
And Airbus parts are transported with a Boeing between construction plants. Hehehehehe...
And BMWs are driven to customers with Mercedes and Volvo trucks. Huahuahua!

Amazing how companies can have so little proud and just use the tools that suit their needs best instead of only managing with whatever is available from themselves.

zerologic · Jun 18, 2002, 11:53 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Developer:
Amazing how companies can have so little proud and just use the tools that suit their needs best instead of only managing with whatever is available from themselves.<hr /></blockquote>Funny you mention that and this is certainly off topic, but our competitors do the same thing. We have a web based web site editor... our tools are so unique and powerful that we used them to build our own site. Not another competitor, not one, does that.

We eat our own dog food so to speak

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Meteo · Jun 19, 2002, 12:41 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Developer:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by undotwa:

Hehe... you know the Win 95 startup logo was designed on a Mac. Heh, and so were the Win XP icons <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> It's just funny...<hr /></blockquote>A lot of Cocoa was written on an Intel computer. That's funny. LOL
And Airbus parts are transported with a Boeing between construction plants. Hehehehehe...
And BMWs are driven to customers with Mercedes and Volvo trucks. Huahuahua!

<hr /></blockquote>you are right except for the airbus parts.... it is an airbus which flies between hamburg and toulouse.....

Moonray · Jun 19, 2002, 01:28 PM

No one of you is smart enough to go to that page and look for yourself, uh?

For those who are handicapped and can't find the page themselves: Go <a href="http://www.lindows.com/lindows_home_insiders_signup.php" target="_blank">here</a>, then click on the "Sign me up!" button at the bottom (which you will recognise as a poor Aqua mockup) to get the page in question displayed in your browser. Depending on your browser you will see the check box either in Aqua, Platinum or something else.
Rickster's guess seems to be right.

And by the way...
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by starfleetX:
Bzzzzt Wrong. Look at the original picture. Is OmniWeb anywhere to be seen?
<hr /></blockquote>... there are indeed some other browsers for Mac OS X and a couple of them show indeed Aqua buttons/boxes/scrollbars.

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starfleetX · Jun 19, 2002, 05:31 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Moonray:
And by the way...
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by starfleetX:
Bzzzzt Wrong. Look at the original picture. Is OmniWeb anywhere to be seen?
<hr /></blockquote>... there are indeed some other browsers for Mac OS X and a couple of them show indeed Aqua buttons/boxes/scrollbars.<hr /></blockquote>You completely missed the point.

There should be *no* Aqua elements at all in the form if you are viewing it from a PC -- which is exactly what's happenning here.

The only explanation I can come up with is what Rickster said about someone copying in a picture from Mac OS X.

*shrug* Oh well.

Moonray · Jun 19, 2002, 09:50 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by starfleetX:
You completely missed the point.

There should be *no* Aqua elements at all in the form if you are viewing it from a PC -- which is exactly what's happenning here.

The only explanation I can come up with is what Rickster said about someone copying in a picture from Mac OS X.

*shrug* Oh well.<hr /></blockquote>No, I do not think I missed the point. If you read the first part of my post you'll see that I gave Rickster right with his explanation. I do agree that Aqua elements are only (to be) generated by browsers using Mac OS X.
All I wanted with quoting your line then was to point out that OmniWeb isn't the only OS X browser using Aqua controls in the page layout.

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forkies · Jun 20, 2002, 12:35 AM

Let's see who DOES NOT GET my original post more than anyone else and posts a bunch of crap about which BROWSERS have Aqua elements.

K, go! Oh, wait...we already did that.

Moonray · Jun 20, 2002, 12:52 AM

Oh... to answer your original question: "Yes, it is an Aqua button" (checkbox would be more accurate).

But we all tried to figure out how it made its way there since we think that Lindows does not copy Mac OS X. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

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