I was browsing through the wiki over at bebits and came across this page
http://wiki.bebits.com/page/InterfaceConsistencyInPreferences
I was wondering what the team was thinking about this stuff.
Interesting stuff. It makes me smile when I remember osnews.com shootout of different OSes. Eugenia gave BeOS the highest marks for UI consistency. This is quite far from the truth.
BTW, you might want to change to a more informative title to get more eyes on this one. Something like “Interface Consistency In Preferences” should do 
Prog.
I was also wondering if there is a team? 
inseculous wrote:
I was browsing through the wiki over at bebits and came across this page http://wiki.bebits.com/page/InterfaceConsistencyInPreferencesI was wondering what the team was thinking about this stuff.
I personally think that an application doesn’t have to feel native and consistent with the OS. Preferences implementation depends more on the app complexity and design. It should be well integrated. Text labels should have the same meaning than in the other apps though.
UI consistency is something that should be keep with all the apps that come under the OS banner … I’d like to see other devs continue that tradition as well.
@inseculous … yeh it does seem a bit like that …
Focusing a little more on the system prefs. Are there any set design standards we should follow. I’ve been trying to reimplement the originals, but it seems the system is evolving right past them. I’d like to see them updated and “modernized” but I don’t want to go too far off the target (whatever that ends up being)
I think for the system included prefs (screen, fonts, etc…) this issue needs to be addressed. I think it would benifit end users most if the core was consistant. Even down to the source.