[Glade-devel] Vote on style editor

[murrayc murrayc com (Murray Cumming)]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:27 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:49:07 +0100, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> [...]
> > > A developer shouldn't use GtkFixed for thier desktop applications, but OTOH
> > > GtkFixed is the ideal solution for a target machine with a fixed resolution
> >
> > I don't think anybody ever writes software for a fixed resolution.
> > There's always a new generation of the target hardware.
> [...]
> > If you can list some situations when a user would need to use this then
> > I could have an opinion. Otherwise, you are encouraging people to do bad
> > things without a reason. Like generating code.
>
> While there is always a new generation of hardware (we are migrating
> from 800x600 --> 1024x768), it still doesn't make sence to skin an
> embedded device with relative coordinates, why ?
>
> Here is an example, 
>     I work at touchtunes (you can get an idea what it looks like here 
> http://www.touchtunes.com/our_jukebox/ ). All widget graphics are custom
> made using applications such as photoshop, studio4D, softimage etc...

That's unfortunate, and I hope there is some alternative. I hope that it
doesn't make life too confusing for regular glade users who don't have
these problems.

> The moment that we change screen resolution, we'll have to upgrade the
> skinset to go with the appropriate hardware (we do also have some old
> jukeboxes running in 640x480), but thats OK, thats just whats needed to
> achieve a full-blown true-colour jukebox experience; with the exceptions
> of a few custom widgets that we use which pre-composite thier graphics
> to the parent widget, in most cases we just cant settle for scaled to
> fit graphics;
> the artist *has* to know what his work will look like pixel for pixel.
>
> It is my opinion that as soon as you exit the desktop translatable

Most embedded software needs to be translated just as much as desktop
software, making automatic layout essential.
 
>  accessible
> mania of the home computer and enter custom UI's with the intention of
> having a rocking look'n'feel that will apeal to the most computer illiterate
> people; you need custom themes, and you need a fixed coordinate system.
>
> Cheers,
>                                                  -Tristan
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Murray Cumming
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