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Re:Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar by code_duck on Sunday February 20, 2011 @04:53PM (#2243237)
Personally, I go back and forth between Linux, Mac OS and Windows so I'm used to inconsistency.

Also, the applications I use are already highly inconsistent:

- Gimp has an interface which discards the patterns present on every platform in existence

- Browsers are already all different - Safari, Chrome, FF

- Kate, Komodo and Notepad++ are all pretty different - then there's vi.

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Re:Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar by jberryman on Sunday February 20, 2011 @05:59PM (#2243428)
> Gimp has an interface which discards the patterns present on every platform in existence

Do you say that because of the multiple windows? If so Apple's Interface Builder seems to follow the same convention.

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Re:Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar by code_duck on Sunday February 20, 2011 @06:32PM (#2243532)
It is somewhat similar to Mac applications, but where's the menu bar at the top? Gimp doesn't even use the functionality present for that on Mac OS or Linux, instead putting a menu into each image window.
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Re:Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar by MartinCron on Sunday February 20, 2011 @07:28PM (#2243660)
Gimp is an example of how much non-standard YX can hurt.
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