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Date: 10 Jun 2025 03:56:54 GMT
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 22:30:23 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> I can remember Microsoft offering standardized open/save dialogs for
> Windows developers to use in their apps. And then ... using entirely
> different ones in their own Microsoft Office.

They never were good at eating their own dog food. I'm not sure they ever 
built a product with C# .NET. At least for programmers VS Code has been 
very successful and that is built with Electron. For that matter Edge v1.0 
was a piece of crap before they sucked it up and used Chromium for the 
v2.0 base.

We had a QA person who got her hands on the OSF/Motif Style Guide. 

https://archive.org/details/
bitsavers_openSoftwaFMotifStyleGuideRevision1.21993_16324635/mode/2up

That led to an endless stream of priority 4 bugs. "The button says 'Quit'. 
It should say 'Exit'".  Or maybe it was the other way around. That wasn't 
altogether bad. Friday afternoon when you didn't want to jump into some 
dark hole you could whip out 3 or 4 bugs.