Re: [Flightgear-devel] New re-arranging and styling for the QtLauncher

[Sébastien V. <seb...@gm...>]

No wireframe at the moment... The UX design tool is a good idea however. Do
you know some free tools?

We could also create a wiki page to bring ideas / wireframe / pictures /
etc...

The parallel idea is also to refactor the /src/GUI code, in particular to
move the current Launcher.ui's controls into independant 'group' widgets -
maybe called WeatherSettingWidget.ui, TimeSettingWidget.ui or something
like that-. That should allow to make the code more evolutive in the
future, especially when new settings will appear.

PS: I feel that the current 1796 lines of code in QtLauncher.cxx could be
delegated to smaller classes.






2017-01-29 8:25 GMT+01:00 Jim <ji...@ch...>:

> Do you have any wire frame design  mockups? I would be glad to offer any
> UX help I can.
>
> Related question:
> Are there any UX design tools out there that we can use to make
> fleshed-out mockups for review?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:17 AM +0300, "Sébastien Vavassori" <
> seb...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>>
>> Here a proposition for re-arranging the QtLauncher, in order to make it
>> more "user-friendly":
>>
>> 1) Replacing the main tabs "summary", "aircraft", "location", "settings"
>> and "addons" by a vertical icon box, on the left side of the window.
>>
>> 2) Splitting the current "Settings" tab page into 3 tabs:
>>     - "Time",
>>     - "Weather"
>>     - "Settings"
>>     ...in order to give more place for icons and images instead of text.
>>
>> 3) Removing the "Quit" button.
>>
>> 4) Changing "Run" by "Fly!"
>>
>> For the general style, the current look of the QtLauncher is closer to an
>> editor than to a start dialog. We could change the Qt stylesheet in order
>> to customise the UI (to give it a special "touch"), with a nice and modern
>> look. For instance something like the Windows Metro UI style (=tiles, with
>> a dominant colour) or elegant like the Papyros UI (http://papyros.io/) ?
>>
>> Regards
>> Seb
>>
>>
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