Re: [Xtrkcad-fork-developers] User Interface Guidelines for XTC

[Dirk W. <dw...@ti...>]

Hi all,

I would refrain from using either GNOME or KDE functionality.  I'm
personally not a very strong opponent of either.  They tend to make your
Linux box so slow in loading applications (correct me if I'm wrong). Not
everybody is running multi processor machines with loads of RAM.  In
fact, my next Linux install will no longer be Fedora but a more slim
installation possibly using Enlightment window manager. 

Keep in mind that you need to keep things cross platform, don't know if
GNOME scales to a non-Linux OS.

I'm not an experienced GUI builder (only did work on an ancient Motif
GUI some years back) so I leave this decision to someone else.  Have you
looked at using www.wxWindows.org (especially wxGLCanvas)?   

Note that this _is_ a big makeover you are hinting at.

Greetings,
Dirk

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:29, Martin Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the past few days I did commit a few bug fixes and a smaller change to XTC. 
> Now I'd like to get started on some bigger modifications, mainly to the user 
> interface. Before we do this, we'd probably better agree on a common 
> interface standard. As XTC is running on LINUX, Windows and Mac OS we'll 
> probably have to adopt ideas from all of these worlds. As a starting point, 
> I'd like to suggest the GNOME standard  
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/ for several reasons:
> 
> - it is small and easy to overview
> - it integrates basic ideas from Windows as well (I can't comment on the Mac)
> 
> What do you think? Which modifications or alternatives would you suggest?
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
> 
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